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Born in a coal-mining camp near Moberly, Missouri, Jack Conroy experienced early tragedy when his father died in a mining explosion in 1909. Conroy left school at the age of thirteen to work in a car shop. He was an avid reader and after World War I, he returned to and finished school, taking classes at the University of Missouri, Columbia in the fall of 1920. Losing his job due to the Great Railroad Strike of 1922, Conroy traveled around managing to find low-paying jobs. Acknowledging his status in terms of class, Conroy began to write from the perspective of a laborer.During the Depression plagued 30’s, he edited The Rebel Poet from 1931-32 and founded The Anvil in 1933, which merged with the Partisan Review in 1935. Conroy briefly edited The New Anvil in Chicago from 1939-40.
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