Grace Lumpkin was an American writer whose work chronicled the lives of the poor and the working classes.
Most of Lumpkin's work focussed on the Depression - she wrote the Gorky Prize winning Novel "To Make my Bread", which told the story of the Loray Mill Stike and the McClures, a family of Appalachian tenant farmers.
Lumpkin was heavily involved with communism during the 1920s and 30s but turned her back on this to the extent that she gave evidence at the Sub-Committee on Government Operations in 1953.
She returned to religion in later life and it seems highly likely that her novel "Full Circle" is at least semi-autobiographical.
For more on Grace Lumpkin see http://cwcs.ysu.edu/resources/literature/grace-lumpkin
Most of Lumpkin's work focussed on the Depression - she wrote the Gorky Prize winning Novel "To Make my Bread", which told the story of the Loray Mill Stike and the McClures, a family of Appalachian tenant farmers.
Lumpkin was heavily involved with communism during the 1920s and 30s but turned her back on this to the extent that she gave evidence at the Sub-Committee on Government Operations in 1953.
She returned to religion in later life and it seems highly likely that her novel "Full Circle" is at least semi-autobiographical.
For more on Grace Lumpkin see http://cwcs.ysu.edu/resources/literature/grace-lumpkin