By George! A new publication

Readers with library cards or $205 to spare are advised to check out the Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 303: Radical and Reform Writers (ISBN: 0-7876-6840-0) (click here for the Table of Contents). I've got a chapter on V.F. Calverton (1900-1940) in this hefty tome. The man was a whirlwind of writing and activity, not all of it useful; who knows what he would have been like in an age of blogging and e-mail. If alive today, the 104 year-old could purchase a copy from Amazon here. Calverton's drinking, like a man on a perpetual stag do, ensured he barely made it out of the 1930s.

Some of the chapters in the original proposal, like Alan Johnson on Sidney Hook, don't appear to have materialised, but this still looks like a strong reference source if you need to know about this kind of writer.