Becoming an Author . . . 1930s Style

Ethnography, Naturalism, and Paul Corey

“…In his trilogy, Corey wished to emulate the work of two anthropologists, Helen and Robert S. Lynd in their Middletown study (McCown ; Gerber :11; Corey to Marshall Best, March 10, ). Literary historian Douglas Wixson (:67) refers to realistic fiction of the thirties about workers as a form of literary ethnography and describes Corey as an ethnographer and social historian.…”