It was in Chicago during that city's literary golden age that he rekindled his earlier alliance with fellow Iowans, George Cram Cook and Susan Glaspell. Come 1915, the trio had snaked thier way from the midwest through Greenwich Village and on to Provincetown to be part of the inner circle during the birth of American modern theatre. He would become the managing editor of Max Eastman's The Masses and later The Liberator which included articles by Helen Keller. He survived two seperate trials for disseminating subversive literature when they opposed a US role during World War I .
Read The Story of The Trial by Floyd Dell: June 1918
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