Adamic, Louis

Adamic, Louis

▪ American author
born March 23, 1899, Blato, Slovenia, Austria-Hungary [now in Slovenia]
died Sept. 4, 1951, near Riegelsville, N.J., U.S.

      novelist and journalist who wrote about the experience of American minorities, especially immigrants, in the early 1900s.

      Adamic immigrated to the United States from Yugoslavia at age 14 and was naturalized in 1918. He wrote about what he called the failure of the American melting pot in Laughing in the Jungle (1932). He returned to Yugoslavia on a Guggenheim Fellowship and wrote about the experience in The Native's Return (1934), the story of a man who finds he cannot slip comfortably into his former life as a peasant. Two successful sequels, Grandsons (1935) and Cradle of Life (1936), were followed by his first novel, The House in Antigua (1937). His following book, My America (1938), a mixture of memoir and social philosophy, outlines his dream of a unified American people.

      Adamic believed America had great potential but that tensions between ethnic minorities and the status quo were near crisis. Starting in 1940 he edited Common Ground, a magazine that analyzed the interracial culture of the United States.

      An intensely political man, Adamic suffered greatly over the fragmentation and occupation of Yugoslavia in World War II, and he supported Josip Broz Tito's communist movement both during and after the war. Adamic was found shot to death, with a rifle in his hands; murder was suspected because of his political views, but the official cause of death was finally determined to be suicide caused by overwork and anxiety.

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