He wrote "Shadow in the Sky" in 1952, and "I want You" in 1951.
Newhouse chronicled the plight of the homeless in the Bowery in his 1934 novel "You Can't Sleep Here."
The Temptation of Roger Heriott" was penned in 1934,the first of two proletarian novels by this Hungarian-born writer. This one, chronicling the conversion of a young newspaperman to communism, earned him a lot of attention (critic John Chamberlain tagged him "the proletarian Hemingway"); the next ("This is Your Day," published in 1937) about a group of young radicals in Manhattan, further enhanced his leftist literary credentials. However, the author's day job – on the staff of The New Yorker, to which he contributed numerous short stories – ultimately pulled him in the other direction.
By the time he got around to publishing his third novel ("The Hollow of the Wave") in 1949, he had broken with the Communist Party, and used that book as a vehicle for repudiating its philosophies.
His prole works (either in accord with his wishes, or because the subject matter was way out of fashion in the postwar era) were never issued in paperback, and have fallen into obscurity, right alongside the author himself. Cited in Rideout (The Radical Novel in the United States); Hanna 2627.
He contributed more than 50 short stories to The New Yorker as staff writer over 25 years.
Asan officer on the staff of General 'Hap' Arnold, he was in attendance at the Teheran Conference in 1943.
He was a lifelong friend of fellow author James Gould Cozzens.
Edward Newhouse Biography
His life story was written: The Literary Career of Proletarian Novelist and "New Yorker" Short Story Writer Edward Newhouse" by by Billy Ben Smith.
He met Dorothy DeLay in 1940 during a cross-country train journey at the end of the All-American Youth Orchestra Tour. They were married in 1941 after only four months of courtship. Dorothy became a renouned violin instructor Julliard School in New York.
He is survived by his son Jeffrey Newhouse of Bronxville and daughter Alison Dinsmore of Boston, as well as four grandchildren.
His sister-in-law, Louise DeLay Carlson, in her ninetys, told me she thought Edward, who inherited the ashes of his wife Dorothy shortly before he died, was cremated too and that his children probably possessed both. (Kerry Elkins, Feb. 26, 2013)
Newhouse chronicled the plight of the homeless in the Bowery in his 1934 novel "You Can't Sleep Here."
The Temptation of Roger Heriott" was penned in 1934,the first of two proletarian novels by this Hungarian-born writer. This one, chronicling the conversion of a young newspaperman to communism, earned him a lot of attention (critic John Chamberlain tagged him "the proletarian Hemingway"); the next ("This is Your Day," published in 1937) about a group of young radicals in Manhattan, further enhanced his leftist literary credentials. However, the author's day job – on the staff of The New Yorker, to which he contributed numerous short stories – ultimately pulled him in the other direction.
By the time he got around to publishing his third novel ("The Hollow of the Wave") in 1949, he had broken with the Communist Party, and used that book as a vehicle for repudiating its philosophies.
His prole works (either in accord with his wishes, or because the subject matter was way out of fashion in the postwar era) were never issued in paperback, and have fallen into obscurity, right alongside the author himself. Cited in Rideout (The Radical Novel in the United States); Hanna 2627.
He contributed more than 50 short stories to The New Yorker as staff writer over 25 years.
Asan officer on the staff of General 'Hap' Arnold, he was in attendance at the Teheran Conference in 1943.
He was a lifelong friend of fellow author James Gould Cozzens.
Edward Newhouse Biography
His life story was written: The Literary Career of Proletarian Novelist and "New Yorker" Short Story Writer Edward Newhouse" by by Billy Ben Smith.
He met Dorothy DeLay in 1940 during a cross-country train journey at the end of the All-American Youth Orchestra Tour. They were married in 1941 after only four months of courtship. Dorothy became a renouned violin instructor Julliard School in New York.
He is survived by his son Jeffrey Newhouse of Bronxville and daughter Alison Dinsmore of Boston, as well as four grandchildren.
His sister-in-law, Louise DeLay Carlson, in her ninetys, told me she thought Edward, who inherited the ashes of his wife Dorothy shortly before he died, was cremated too and that his children probably possessed both. (Kerry Elkins, Feb. 26, 2013)
He wrote "Shadow in the Sky" in 1952, and "I want You" in 1951.
Newhouse chronicled the plight of the homeless in the Bowery in his 1934 novel "You Can't Sleep Here."
The Temptation of Roger Heriott" was penned in 1934,the first of two proletarian novels by this Hungarian-born writer. This one, chronicling the conversion of a young newspaperman to communism, earned him a lot of attention (critic John Chamberlain tagged him "the proletarian Hemingway"); the next ("This is Your Day," published in 1937) about a group of young radicals in Manhattan, further enhanced his leftist literary credentials. However, the author's day job – on the staff of The New Yorker, to which he contributed numerous short stories – ultimately pulled him in the other direction.
By the time he got around to publishing his third novel ("The Hollow of the Wave") in 1949, he had broken with the Communist Party, and used that book as a vehicle for repudiating its philosophies.
His prole works (either in accord with his wishes, or because the subject matter was way out of fashion in the postwar era) were never issued in paperback, and have fallen into obscurity, right alongside the author himself. Cited in Rideout (The Radical Novel in the United States); Hanna 2627.
He contributed more than 50 short stories to The New Yorker as staff writer over 25 years.
Asan officer on the staff of General 'Hap' Arnold, he was in attendance at the Teheran Conference in 1943.
He was a lifelong friend of fellow author James Gould Cozzens.
Edward Newhouse Biography
His life story was written: The Literary Career of Proletarian Novelist and "New Yorker" Short Story Writer Edward Newhouse" by by Billy Ben Smith.
He met Dorothy DeLay in 1940 during a cross-country train journey at the end of the All-American Youth Orchestra Tour. They were married in 1941 after only four months of courtship. Dorothy became a renouned violin instructor Julliard School in New York.
He is survived by his son Jeffrey Newhouse of Bronxville and daughter Alison Dinsmore of Boston, as well as four grandchildren.
His sister-in-law, Louise DeLay Carlson, in her ninetys, told me she thought Edward, who inherited the ashes of his wife Dorothy shortly before he died, was cremated too and that his children probably possessed both. (Kerry Elkins, Feb. 26, 2013)
Newhouse chronicled the plight of the homeless in the Bowery in his 1934 novel "You Can't Sleep Here."
The Temptation of Roger Heriott" was penned in 1934,the first of two proletarian novels by this Hungarian-born writer. This one, chronicling the conversion of a young newspaperman to communism, earned him a lot of attention (critic John Chamberlain tagged him "the proletarian Hemingway"); the next ("This is Your Day," published in 1937) about a group of young radicals in Manhattan, further enhanced his leftist literary credentials. However, the author's day job – on the staff of The New Yorker, to which he contributed numerous short stories – ultimately pulled him in the other direction.
By the time he got around to publishing his third novel ("The Hollow of the Wave") in 1949, he had broken with the Communist Party, and used that book as a vehicle for repudiating its philosophies.
His prole works (either in accord with his wishes, or because the subject matter was way out of fashion in the postwar era) were never issued in paperback, and have fallen into obscurity, right alongside the author himself. Cited in Rideout (The Radical Novel in the United States); Hanna 2627.
He contributed more than 50 short stories to The New Yorker as staff writer over 25 years.
Asan officer on the staff of General 'Hap' Arnold, he was in attendance at the Teheran Conference in 1943.
He was a lifelong friend of fellow author James Gould Cozzens.
Edward Newhouse Biography
His life story was written: The Literary Career of Proletarian Novelist and "New Yorker" Short Story Writer Edward Newhouse" by by Billy Ben Smith.
He met Dorothy DeLay in 1940 during a cross-country train journey at the end of the All-American Youth Orchestra Tour. They were married in 1941 after only four months of courtship. Dorothy became a renouned violin instructor Julliard School in New York.
He is survived by his son Jeffrey Newhouse of Bronxville and daughter Alison Dinsmore of Boston, as well as four grandchildren.
His sister-in-law, Louise DeLay Carlson, in her ninetys, told me she thought Edward, who inherited the ashes of his wife Dorothy shortly before he died, was cremated too and that his children probably possessed both. (Kerry Elkins, Feb. 26, 2013)
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