Sherry Mangan
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27 June 1904
Sherry Mangan | |
|---|---|
| Born | John Joseph Sherry Mangan 27 June 1904 Lynn, Massachusetts, US |
| Died | 24 June 1961 (aged 56) Rome, Italy |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, Novelist, Poet, Political Activist, Marxist |
| Website | [1] |
Sherry Mangan (born John Joseph Sherry Mangan; 27 June 1904 – 24 June 1961) was an American writer, journalist, translator, editor, and book designer. He was a Marxist political activist in the Trotskyist movement from 1935 to 1961. During the Nazi occupation of Paris he was actively associated with left-wing underground operations.[1][2][3]
Sherry Mangan was born to Irish-Catholic parents on 27 July 27, 1904, in Lynn, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1925 in classical literature.[2]
Career
In the 1930s itself he was popular for his literary acumen.[3]
He became a Trotskyist and got into the US Socialist Party. He took interest as member of the Socialist Workers Party from the time it came to be established in 1938.[2]
Soon after he moved to Paris, under the influence of several expatriates he became a writer and editor on French surrealism. As editor he worked for Larus: The Celestial Visitor (1927-1928) and Pagany: A Native Quarterly (1930-1933). He then came under the influence of French modernism and also diversified his interests to writing novels, poetry and fiction; some of his notable works are Cinderella Married (1932), Salutation to Valediction (1938) and No Apology for Poetrie and other Poems written 1922-1931 (1934).[2]
He pursued his deep interest in Marxism and as a Trotskyist was actively engaged in the promotion of the French section of the International Federation of Independent Revolutionary Art. He also wrote articles under the pseudonym of Sean Niall for the Partisan Review.[2] He also published articles regularly on French affairs in the newspaper of the Socialist Workers Party.[3]
