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Full Circle
Grace Lumpkin's final novel, Full Circle (1962), reflects the trajectory of her own life. The plot revolves around a woman who leaves the church, becomes involved with the Communist Party, and eventually finds herself returning to the church and to the faith she had left behind. The novel is considered a fictionalized account of her peculiar ideological and spiritual journey between her Communist phase and her “return to God.”
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Grace Lumpkin (1891-1980) was a radical author who wrote about racial inequality and oppression in the American South. Growing up in Georgia and North Carolina, where she witnessed the plight of sharecroppers and physical laborers, she organized adult night schools and became involved in the lives of farmers in the region. She moved to New York in 1925 and wrote for The World Tomorrow, covering the 1926 textile strike in Passaic, New Jersey. She became aligned with the American Communist Party and published her first story, “White Man, a Story,” in the New Masses in 1927. Her first novel, To Make My Bread (1932), made her a leftist literary star, a status she enjoyed until her break with Communism and return to religion in the late 1930s—a process she portrayed in her last novel, Full Circle (1962).
About the
Grace Lumpkin (1891-1980) was a radical author who wrote about racial inequality and oppression in the American South. Growing up in Georgia and North Carolina, where she witnessed the plight of sharecroppers and physical laborers, she organized adult night schools and became involved in the lives of farmers in the region. She moved to New York in 1925 and wrote for The World Tomorrow, covering the 1926 textile strike in Passaic, New Jersey. She became aligned with the American Communist Party and published her first story, “White Man, a Story,” in the New Masses in 1927. Her first novel, To Make My Bread (1932), made her a leftist literary star, a status she enjoyed until her break with Communism and return to religion in the late 1930s—a process she portrayed in her last novel, Full Circle (1962).
357 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1962
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Grace Lumpkin
7 books1 followerGrace Lumpkin (March 3, 1891 – March 23, 1980) was an American writer of proletarian literature, focusing most of her works on the Depression era and the rise and fall of favor surrounding communism in the United States.
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