Nobody Starves: A Novel

First Edition. “Tribulations of a young working class couple in Detroit at the beginning of the Depression.” A female heroine survives economic depression and a violent labor strike in 1930's Detroit, only to be shot by her deranged, unemployed husband. All but forgotten today, this is one of the really great proletarian novels of the Depression, highly praised upon publication by such writers as Lincoln Steffens, Sinclair Lewis, Faith Baldwin, and Upton Sinclair, and one of the few to be written by a woman. HANNA 456. BLAKE p.249. COAN p.81.

Catharine Brody.
Nobody Starves.
New York: Longmans, Green, 1932.

Lehigh University Catalog Record: https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/10839083

If you're interested in learning more about the historical events that inspired this novel, please refer to the links below:

"Ford Hunger March, Workers' Inquiry, Flyer, 1932" from the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, ca. March 1932.

Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre dir. by Leo Hurwitz, Detroit and New York Film and Photo League, Workers International Relief, 1932.

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