Leane Zugsmith

Leane Zugsmith (January 18, 1903 – October 13, 1969) was an American novelist and short story writer who frequently wrote about the economically disadvantaged and the shortcomings of capitalism.

Biography Zugsmith was born in Louisville, Kentucky on January 18, 1903, to German Jewish parents Albert Zugsmith and Gertrude Appel. Her mother attempted suicide several times and the couple finally divorced. Zugsmith spent her early childhood in Atlantic City, New Jersey; she later attended high school both in Atlantic City and Louisville, the home of her maternal grandparents. She later moved to small-town New England. The Summer Soldier is about a civil rights committee that investigates allegations of violence against workers in a southern town.

American Naturalist writer Theodore Dreiser had a copy of Never Enough in his library.

Her younger brother, Albert Zugsmith, was an American film producer, film director and screenwriter who specialized in low-budget exploitation films through the 1950s and 1960s.