1. Louis Adamic was a Slovene-American author and translator, mostly known for writing about and advocating for ethnic diversity of the United States.
17 Facts About Louis Adamic
1. 2.
Louis Adamic was born at Praproce Mansion in Praproce pri Grosupljem in the region of Lower Carniola, in what is Slovenia.
3.
Louis Adamic was admitted to the Jesuit school in Ljubljana, but was unable to bring himself to go.
4.
On December 31,1913, at the age of 15, Louis Adamic emigrated to the United States.
5.
Louis Adamic finally settled in a heavily ethnic Croatian fishing community of San Pedro, California.
6.
Louis Adamic became a naturalized United States citizen in 1918 as Louis Adamic.
7.
Louis Adamic first worked as a manual laborer and later at a Yugoslavian daily newspaper, Narodni Glas, that was published in New York.
8.
All of Louis Adamic's writings are based on his labor experiences in America and his former life in Slovenia.
9.
Louis Adamic achieved national acclaim in America in 1934 with his book The Native's Return, which was a bestseller directed against King Alexander's regime in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
10.
Louis Adamic founded the United Committee of South-Slavic Americans in support of Marshal Tito.
11.
In 1941, Louis Adamic won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for From Many Lands.
12.
John Roy Carlson, present at the burial of Louis Adamic, said he believed Louis Adamic was murdered by the Soviet Government, who were threatened by the impending publication of The Eagle and the Roots.
13.
Anton Smole, of Tanjug, alleged that Louis Adamic had told of him of multiple occasions in which unknown men had threatened Louis Adamic over his public sympathies as a writer for Titoism and the anti-Stalinist Left.
14.
Reportedly, Louis Adamic had been beaten severely on a California beach sometime in 1951, and left with the warning that he would be murdered if he continued writing about Yugoslavia.
15.
Ethel Sharp, Louis Adamic's typist, claimed he had told her of an incident in October of 1950 in which four unidentified men visited Louis Adamic's home and threateningly inquired about the progress of The Eagle and the Roots.
16.
In 1957, Howard L Yowell, the then-current owner of the house where Adamic died, found $12,350 cash in a tin box within a wall of the farmhouse.
17.
Stout and Louis Adamic were friends and frequent political allies, and Stout expressed uncertainty to McAleer about the circumstances of Louis Adamic's death.