Dorothy Markey | |
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| Born | Dorothy Page Gary October 1, 1897 Newport News, Virginia, US |
| Died | October 1993 (aged 95–96) |
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| Spouse | John Fordyce Markey |
| Espionage activity | |
| Allegiance |  Soviet Union |
| Service branch | probably Comintern's "OMS" |
| Service years | 1933–1940s? |
| Rank | Unknown |
| Codename | M. Burton (when writing for the AFT |
| Operations | Couriers (money) |
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| Pen name | Myra Page |
| Language | English |
| Period | 1918–1964 |
| Genre | Proletkult |
| Literary movement | Communist |
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Dorothy Markey (born Dorothy Page Gary, 1897–1993), known by the pen name Myra Page, was a 20th-century American communist writer, journalist, union activist, and teacher.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
- ^ "Myra Page Papers, 1910-1990". University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2004. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
- ^ Page, Myra; Baker, Christina Looper (1996). In a Generous Spirit: A First-Person Biography of Myra Page. University of Illinois Press. pp. 5-9 (family), 43-46 (Columbia), 48-52 (Norfolk), 53 (manifesto), 54-66 (Amalgamated), 67 (teacher), 68-71 (Markey), 84 (CPUSA, Fosterite), 85-86 (Nearing), 86-88 (Gastonia, Vienna), 92 (PhD), 93-97 (Wheaton), 94-96 (1st trip USSR), 98 (Southern Cotton Mills), 99 (Dunne bro.s), 100 (John Reed Club), 101 (journalist, full-time Party), 101-102 (LRA), 102 (Darden), 103 (New Pioneer), 105 (Smedley), 109 (pen name), 110 (Mike Gold, Colorblind), 111-118 (Gathering Storm), 119-120 (Beal), 119-137 (2nd trip USSR), 120 (Browder), 121 (Harold Ware), 123-124 (horrors), 125-127 (Soviet Main Street, Podolsk), 135-136 (underground), 140-141 (return US 11/1933), 141 (Soviet Russia Today), 144 (daughter's birth), 145 (League of American Writers), 146 (book contract), 146-147 (Malraux), 147-155 (Commonwealth College), 155 (TWU, Flanagan), 155-156 (Highlander), 157 (Aline Bernstein), 180-186 (McCarthyism), 186-187 (disillusion). ISBN 9780252065439. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
- ^ Mantooth, Wes (25 July 2006). You Factory Folks Who Sing This Song Will Surely Understand: Culture, Ideology, and Action in the Gastonia Novels of Myra Page, Grace Lumpkin, and Olive Dargin. Routledge. pp. 19 (novels), 20–36 (bio). ISBN 9781135515393. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
- ^ Wald, Alan M. (15 October 2012). American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War. UNC Press. pp. 103 (dates), 108 (Party). ISBN 9780807837344. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
- ^ Choi Chatterjee; Beth Holmgren, eds. (2013). Americans Experience Russia: Encountering the Enigma, 1917 to the Present. Routledge. p. 97. ISBN 9780415893411. Retrieved 4 August 2018.
- ^ M. Keith Booker, ed. (2005). Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 543–544. ISBN 9780313329401. Retrieved 4 August 2018.