Grace Lumpkin

Grace Lumpkin
BornMarch 3, 1891
Milledgeville, Georgia, U.S.
DiedMarch 23, 1980(1980-03-23) (aged 89)
Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.
OccupationWriter, novelist
LanguageEnglish
Period1930s, 1960s
GenreProletarian literature, Feminist literature
SubjectAmerican social injustices
Notable worksTo Make My Bread (1932)
Notable awardsGorky Prize 1933
SpouseMichael Intrator (div.)
RelativesKatharine DuPre Lumpkin (sister)

Grace Lumpkin (March 3, 1891 – March 23, 1980)[1] was an American writer of proletarian literature who focused most of her works on the Depression era and the rise and fall of communism in the United States. The most important of four books was her first, To Make My Bread (1932), which won the Gorky Prize in 1933.[2][3]

  1. ^ Baker, Bruce E. (2006). "Grace Lumpkin". In Flora, Joseph M. (ed.). Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary. Vogel, Amber; Giemza, Bryan. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. pp. 257–258. ISBN 0-8071-3123-7. Retrieved July 14, 2010.
  2. ^ Lee, Elizabeth Grace (2017). Pilgrims' Progress: Southern Social Activists' Journey from Christianity to Communism During the 1920s and 1930s (PDF). North Carolina State University. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  3. ^ Lee, Elizabeth Grace (2017). Pilgrims' Progress: Southern Social Activists' Journey from Christianity to Communism During the 1920s and 1930s. North Carolina State University. Retrieved 10 October 2018.