Literature 1929-1941 In every period in the history of American literature a diversity of talented writers appear. Likewise readers always exhibit a vast diversity of taste in what they want to read. The Depression years were no different in this regard. Nada Surf The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy Rapidshare Movies. Prompted by the economic struggles of the Great Depression many of the 1930s writers authored an array of socially conscious books generally referred to as proletarian (working class) literature.

Those writers sought to bring to readers a realistic picture of the hardships endured by their fellow Americans as the economic and social darkness of the Great Depression closed in. Another type of literature that developed in the 1930s was documentary journalism, with titles such as The Road: In Search of America, Puzzled America, and My America. Documentary journalism also resulted from the Depression as out of work journalists decided they might as well take to the road to discover how the Depression was affecting the country's people as a whole. Other journalists still on the job were sent out to 'document' the social changes due to economic difficulties. These works tended to build a national self-awareness, a nationalistic spirit of who the 'real' America was.

Throughout the troubled times brought on by the Depression there was an undeniable public interest in economic and political subjects. Many writers sat at their typewriters attempting to supply solutions to help put America back on course. Still many other authors went along in their own individualistic ways paying no mind to current issues and topics, providing an escape for their readers' daily lives and problems. Self-help books were also popular as were histories and biographies. Beginning in 1935 between six and seven thousand writers received support through a branch of a New Deal program, the Works Progress Administration (WPA). That branch, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), hired many unemployed writers to work on specific publications about the United States. Up to this time federal support for writers was nonexistent.