MPR’s Mara Ann Tapp profiles and interviews Meridel Le Sueur. The author discusses the book Ripening, a comprehensive collection of her work. Le Sueur also comments on her love for the Midwest and time in Minnesota.
Le Sueur is associated with the proletarian literature movement of the 1930s and 1940s.
This recording was made available through a grant from the National Historical Publications & Records Commission.