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Theresa "Tess" Slesinger (July 16, 1905 – February 21, 1945) was an American writer and screenwriter and a member of the New York intellectual scene. Life and career.
An unconventional childhood and her association with Jewish left-wing literary radicals shaped the biting satire of Tess Slesinger's novels and short stories. Her subsequent conquest of Hollywood as a screenwriter was cut short by her untimely death at age thirty-nine.
Sep 13, 2023 · Issues of racial, class, and gender inequality in the interwar period were taken up by the Harlem Renaissance writer Jessie Redmon Fauset and by Tess Slesinger in what Paula Rabinowitz terms her “socialist feminist” fiction and underlies much of the irony and satire of Dorothy Parker and Mary McCarthy.
Tess Slesinger's 1934 novel, The Unpossessed details the ins and outs and ups and downs of left-wing New York intellectual life and features a cast of litterateurs, layabouts, lotharios, academic activists, and fur-clad patrons of protest and the arts.
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Tess Slesinger is the author of The Unpossessed (3.55 avg rating, 191 ratings, 30 reviews, published 1934), On Being Told That Her Second Husband Has Tak...
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Slesinger, Tess (1905–1945) American novelist and short-story writer. Born in New York City in 1905; died in 1945; daughter of middle-class Jewish immigrant parents; attended the Ethical Culture School; studied at Swarthmore College, 1923–25; attended Columbia School of Journalism, taking Dorothy Scarborough 's course in the short story, B ...
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Oct 28, 2009 · The unpossessed. by. Slesinger, Tess, 1905-1945. Publication date. 1934. Topics. Intellectuals. Publisher. New York, Simon and Schuster.