Granville Hicks (1901-1982) wrote prolifically for more than fifty years - reviews and essays in The New Masses (which he edited), The New Republic, Saturday Review, and The Nation, and utopian novels and works of literary history and criticism, including the influential The Great Tradition. Warren F. Broderick is an archivist for the New York State Archives in Albany and writes on local, American literary, and Native American history. He lives in Lansingburgh, N.Y., not far from Grafton. Ron Powers is the author of Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain, as well as Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore, and coauthor of the bestseller Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, he lives in Middlebury, Vermont.
"Granville Hicks saw it coming. 'Has any small town a future in this age of industrialism, urbanism, and specialization?' he asks in his classic work of 1946, which examined a town caught in the decline of small-scale society that even back then was well under way. Nearly 60 years of 'future' later, the balefulness of Hicks' question seems sadly to have been enlarged, transmuted, and emphatically justified." - Ron Powers, from the Foreword"
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