Federal Writers' Project Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was a United States federal government project to fund written work and support writers during the Great Depression. It was part of the Works Projects Administration, a New Deal program. It was one of four New Deal arts programs collectively as Federal One. FWP was particularly charged with employing writers, editors, historians, researchers, art critics, archaeologists, geologists and cartographers.
Established on July 27, 1935, the Writers' Project operated under journalist and theatrical producer Henry Alsberg, and later John D. Newsome, and produced local histories, oral histories, ethnographies, children's books and 48 state guides to America (plus Alaska Territory, Puerto Rico and D.C)—the American Guide Series publications were described as a "public Baedeker's Guide." By the time it was shut down April 27, 1943, the FWP had already contributed an immense amount to the field of American studies.
Among the 6,000 unemployed writers who worked with the Federal Writers' Project at its height were notable American scribes Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, May Swenson, Saul Bellow, Nelson Algren, Ralph Ellison and John Cheever.
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