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Meridel Le Sueur
American writer and social activist
Meridel Le Sueur (February 22, , Murray, Iowa – November 14, , Hudson, Wisconsin) was an American writer associated with the proletarian literature movement of the s and s.
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Born as Meridel Wharton, she assumed the name of her mother's second husband, Arthur Le Sueur, the former Socialist mayor of Minot, North Dakota.
Life and career
Le Sueur, the daughter of William Winston Wharton and Marian "Mary Del" Lucy, was born into a family of social and political activists.[1] Her grandfather was a supporter of the Protestant fundamentalist temperance movement, and she "grew up among the radical farmer and labor groups like the Populists, the Farmers' Alliance and the Wobblies, the Industrial Workers of the World."[2] Le Sueur was heavily influenced by poems and stories that she heard from Native American women.
"After a year studying dance and physical fitness at the American College of Physical Educati