The Federal Arts Projects were created by FDR in the summer of 1935. A year later, a handful of writers employed in the St Louis office of the Missouri Writers' Project, including Jack Balch, went out on strike. Lamps at High Noon is the only novel about this strike and the only one to treat comprehensively any aspect of the Federal Writers' Project, whose participants included some of the country's most accomplished and promising authors. Charlie Gest, the wide-eyed and well-intentioned protagonist of the novel, confronts firsthand the project's sometimes underhanded efforts to monitor the...
The Federal Arts Projects were created by FDR in the summer of 1935. A year later, a handful of writers employed in the St Louis office of the Missour...
