Name	Freeman, Joseph
Alternative Names
ID	389
Gender	male
Lifespan	1897-10-07 - 1965-08-08
Professions	writer (Q36180), novelist (Q6625963), foreign correspondent, American

Collection(s)	Transatlantic Networks webclient
Uri(s)	https://id.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/ica/persons/1_49
Notes	Upon arriving in Europe in 1945, Freeman managed to visit Linz and Salzburg, but could not visit Vienna as a special permission was required to do so at that time. His lack of first hand experience of Vienna did not, however, restrain him from giving detailled impressions of the city and the rest of Austria in Never Call Retreat (1942). After "we arrived in Linz, Austria, which I've written about in NCR but never seen" he admits to it being "beautiful". In the 1920s and 30s he was a significant contributor to debates on necessary social reforms in the US and also wrote about his radical reform ideas in The New Masses. He was an early critic of fascism and until the Stalin-Hitler Pact of 1939 a follower of American Communism.
References	see Zacharasiewicz, Transatlantic Networks, ch. 13; see also Aaron, Writers on the Left, 1965, esp. 68-84, 130-8, 365-75 and Scheiding, Joseph Freeman, 1994. Freeman's papers, drafts, books and correspondences may be viewed in the Butler Library of Columbia, among others.