Edwin Seaver

Edwin Seaver was born in 1900 in Washington, DC, to a Jewish family and raised in Philadelphia. He attended a New England prep school and then Harvard College.

Inclined to Communism, he worked for publications including the Menorah Journal, the New Masses, and Partisan Review.

He also co-wrote a book with actress Carole Landis called Four Jills in a Jeep (1944), made to accompany movie of the same name that year.

In 1948, Max Lerner reviewed in Fortune (magazine), "The Businessman in Fiction," by John Chamberlain, whom he criticized for lumping left-leaning writers together as "heretics": Sinclair Lewis, Frederic Wakeman, John P. Marquand, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Lester Cohen, Norman Mailer, Christina Stead, Hiram Haydn, Robert Penn Warren, Charles Yale Harrison, Hugh MacLennan, Herman Wouk, Robert Rylee, Taylor Caldwell, Upton Sinclair, John Steinbeck, MacKinlay Kantor, Robert Wilder, Thomas Duncan, Merle Miller, Robert van Gelder, Mary McCarthy, Arthur Miller, Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, Edwin Seaver, Mary Heaton Vorse, Grace Lumpkin, William Rollins, Robert Cantwell, Jack Conroy, Jack London, Robert Herrick, Frank Norris, William Dean Howells, Edith Wharton, Henry Adams, and Henry James.

{{cite magazine

| first = Max

| last = Lerner

| authorlink = Max Lerner

| title = The Historian, the Novelist, and the Faith

| magazine = The New Republic

| url = https://newrepublic.com/article/92597/the-historian-the-novelist-and-the-faith

| date = 6 December 1948

| accessdate = 5 August 2018}}

He was a sponsor of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace, held in New York City, March 25–27, 1949, arranged by the National Council of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions as follow-up to an earlier gathering, the World Congress of Intellectuals in Defense of Peace, held in Poland, August 25–28, 1948.[http://keywiki.org/files/sccwp-cuaa-1949.pdf Review of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace] by the Committee on Un-American Activities, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., April 19, 1949

Seaver was interviewed during the McCarthy hearings but never confirmed as a Communist.

Seaver wrote the novels The Company (Macmillan, 1930) and Between the Hammer and the Anvil (Julian Messner, 1937).

• The Company (1930)

{{cite book

| first = Edwin

| last = Seaver

| title = The Company

| publisher = MacMillan

| date = 1930

| lccn = 30007962

}}

• All in the racket, with William E. Weeks, introduced by Arthur Garfield Hays (1930)

{{cite book

| first1 = William E.

| last1 = Weeks

| first2 = Edwin

| last2 = Seaver

| title = All in the racket

| publisher = Boni

| date = 1930

| lccn = 30021772

}}

• Between the hammer and the anvil (1937){{cite book

| first = Edwin

| last = Seaver

| title = Between the hammer and the anvil

| publisher = Julian Messner

| date = 1937

| lccn = 37002942

}}

• World's great love novels (1944)

{{cite book

| editor = Edwin Seaver

| title = Pageant of American humor

| publisher = World Pub. Co.

| date = 1944

| lccn = 44007913

}}

• Cross section: a collection of new American writing (1944-1948)

{{cite journal

| editor = Edwin Seaver

| title = Cross section: a collection of new American writing

| publisher = L.B. Fischer

| date = 1944

| lccn = 44005533

}}

• Pageant of American humor (1948)

{{cite book

| editor = Edwin Seaver

| title = Pageant of American humor

| publisher = World Pub. Co.

| date = 1948

| lccn = 48009297

}}

• "Only an Editor", New York Review of Books (August 24, 1967)

{{cite magazine

| first = Edwin

| last = Seaver

| title = Only an Editor

| magazine = New York Review of Books

| url = https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1967/12/07/only-an-editor/

| date = 24 August 1967

| accessdate = 5 August 2018}}

• So far, so good: recollections of a life in publishing (preface by Angus Cameron) (1986)

{{cite book

| first = Edwin

| last = Seaver

| title = So far, so good: recollections of a life in publishing

| publisher = L. Hill

| date = 1986

| lccn = 86012068

}}

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