14 Facts About Harvey Swados

Harvey Swados was an American social critic and author of novels, short stories, essays and journalism.

Simultaneous with an upper-middle-class upbringing, Harvey Swados developed an acute awareness of his social surroundings.

In 1936, at the age of 15, Harvey Swados enrolled at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he won a Hopwood Award for creative writing.

House of Fury, a novel by Felice Harvey Swados, was published in 1941.

Dissatisfied with its reception among friends and colleagues whose opinions he valued, and unable to place it with a publisher at that time, Harvey Swados set the work aside shortly after its creation in the 1940s.

Apart from the profound impact her death had on him, Harvey Swados, driven by his deep love for Felice and for her idealism, was more than ever determined to make his way as a writer.

Harvey Swados found the office work frustrating, though, drawing as it did on many of the working hours and on many of the skills Swados wished to apply toward his own writing.

In 1957, Harvey Swados and his family decamped for a year to Iowa City, Iowa, where Harvey Swados was a faculty member at Paul Engle's Iowa Writers' Workshop, and where his colleagues included Vance Bourjaily and Herbert Gold.

That same year, Harvey Swados reported from Jerusalem for The New York Times on the aftermath of the Six-Day War.

Harvey Swados was strongly urged by members of the reformist Alexander Dubcek government to depart the country, which the family was indeed forced to do, mere hours before the arrival of invading Russian troops.

Harvey Swados had decided to accept an appointment as Professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

In what was to be one of the final public acts of his political life, Harvey Swados traveled to Washington, DC, in 1972 and volunteered his writing services to the presidential campaign of George McGovern and his running mate Sargent Shriver.

Harvey Swados was putting the finishing touches on his final published work, the novel Celebration, when he was stricken by a cerebral aneurysm.

Harvey Swados had too much integrity to allow for the soft lies of sentiment.