Harvey Swados

Harvey Swados (1920-1972) was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of a doctor. A graduate of the University of Michigan. Swados was a four year veteran of the Merchant Marine during World War II and published his first novel in 1955. Swados's 1959 essay for Esquire, "Why Resign from the Human Race?," has often been said to have inspired the formation of the Peace Corps.

Published Works

• Out Went the Candle, novel, 1955.
• On the Line, a group of stories set in an auto plant, 1957
• A Radical's America, essays, 1962
• The American Writer and the Great Depression, editor, 1966
• Standing Up for People, biography Estes Kefauver, 1972
• Celebration, novel, 1975
• Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn: the Collected Stories of Harvey Swados, 1986

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