Title: Dangerous dossiers : exposing the secret war against America's greatest authors /
Authors: Mitgang, Herbert.
Publisher: D.I. Fine,
Year: 1988
Subjects: United States.; United States.; Police patrol United States Surveillance operations.; American literature Censorship.; American literature Political aspects.; Authors, American Political and social views; Politics and literature United States History; Censorship United States History; American literature History and criticism
Abstract: Recounts the fifty year espionage campaign waged by intelligence agencies against famed American writers.
Contents: The right of privacy -- Policing America's writers: Agent "T-10" ; The professionals ; In the web : E.B. White ; Half-freedom files -- The Nobel laureates: Sinclair Lewis ; Pearl S. Buck ; William Faulkner ; Ernest Hemingway ; John Steinbeck ; Thomas Mann -- Revered authors: Carl Sandburg ; Theodore Dreiser ; John Dos Passos ; Thomas Wolfe ; Dorothy Parker ; John O'Hara -- Sleuthing the storytellers: Nelson Algren ; Dashiell Hammett ; Irwin Shaw ; Truman Capote ; A.J. Liebling -- Troublemaking playwrights: Thornton Wilder ; Robert Sherwood ; Elmer Rice ; Maxwell Anderson ; William Saroyan ; Lillian Hellman ; Tennessee Williams -- Poets and essayists: Archibald MacLeish ; Robert Lowell ; Robert Frost ; W.H. Auden ; H.L. Mencken ; Edmund Wilson -- Foreign authors: Stephen Spender ; Graham Greene ; Hannah Arendt ; Aldous Huxley ; Ignazio Silone -- Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher -- Seeing red : Rex Stout: The League's stand ; Rex Stout, "alleged radical" -- Infiltrating the guilds: Spying on meetings ; The Radio Writers Guild ; A wild-goose chase -- Among those present ... : John Kenneth Galbraith ; William H. (Bill) Mauldin ; Norman Mailer ; Allen Ginsberg -- Watching artists: Alexander Calder ; Ben Shahn ; Georgia O'Keeffe ; Henry Moore -- Rules of the game: Weakening the guidelines ; Expunging records ; Professor Kimball vindicated -- Freedom to create: An alien state.