The Invaders: A Novel

by Waldo Frank

The Invaders fictionally imagines the import of the atom bomb on individual identity through a series of interpersonal invasions. Waldo David Frank (1889 - 1967) was a prolific American novelist, historian, literary and social critic.

239 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1948

About the author

Waldo David Frank was an American novelist, historian, political activist, and literary critic, who wrote extensively for The New Yorker and The New Republic during the 1920s and 1930s. Frank is best known for his studies of Spanish and Latin American literature and culture and his work is regarded as an intellectual bridge between the two continents.

A radical political activist during the years of the Great Depression, Frank delivered a keynote speech to the first congress of the League of American Writers and was the first chair of that organization. Frank broke with the Communist Party, USA in 1937 over its treatment of exiled Soviet leader Leon Trotsky, whom Frank met in Mexico in January of that year.