Robert Cantwell and the Literary Left: A Northwest Writer Reworks American FictionRobert Cantwell and the Literary Left is the first full critical study of novelist and critic Robert Cantwell, a Northwest born writer with a strong sense of social justice who found himself at the center of the radical literary and cultural politics of 1930s New York. Regarded by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway as one of the finest young fiction writers to emerge from this era, Cantwell is best known for his superb novel, The Land of Plenty,