Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary LeftWith this book, Alan Wald launches a bold and passionate account of the U. S. Literary Left from the 1920s through the 1960s. Exiles from a Future Time, the first volume of a trilogy, focuses on the forging of a Communist led literary tradition in the 1930s. Exploring writers' intimate lives and heartfelt political commitments, Wald draws on original research in scores of archives and personal collections of papers; correspondence and interviews with