They Also Wrote for the Fan Magazines Film Articles by Literary Giants from E. E. Cummings to Eleanor Roosevelt, 1920-1939

Fan magazines occupied a unique role in American popular culture during the first half of the twentieth century. Their appeal was in the many stars they featured and, on infrequent occasion, the major literary figures who contributed to the pages.Presented here is an anthology of articles from many of the major fan magazines of the 1920s and 1930s written by those not normally associated with this genre: E.E. Cummings, Theodore Drieser, Janet Flanner, Archibald MacLeish, W. Somerset Maugham, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Each article is fully annotated and accompanied by an introductory essay discussing the author's involvement with the movie industry.