Publisher's Synopsis
King Arthur's Socks and other Village Plays By Floyd Dell Classic Plays and Drama Brand New Edition Dell was born in Barry, Illinois on June 28, 1887. As a literary critic, Dell had a national reputation for promoting modern American literature in the 1910s. He was a best-selling author of novels and books of stories and essays, as well as a lifelong poet and the author of a hit Broadway play, Little Accident (1928). His influence is alive in the work of many major American writers from the first half of the 20th century. After dropping out of high school in Davenport, Iowa, Dell found work as a reporter on local newspapers and with the socialist magazine Tri-City Worker. While in Davenport he also began publishing poetry in national magazines. In 1908, Dell moved on to Chicago where he became editor of the Friday Literary Review and a leader of the Chicago Renaissance. In his position at FLR, Dell promoted the work of Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Carl Sandburg and other Chicago writers. Relocating to New York in 1913, Dell became managing editor of Max Eastman's radical magazine The Masses, and a leader of the pre-war bohemian community in Greenwich Village.
