Leon Srabian Herald

Leon Srabian Herald (born Leon Der Srabian; 15 May 1896 – 7 September 1976) was an Armenian-American poet who wrote the first English-language book by an Armenian author on the subject of the Armenian genocide.

Biography Background

Herald was born in Put-Aringe, near Erzincan in 1896. In 1912, he emigrated with his family to America.

Career In 1925, Herald published a first book of poems, This Waking Hour. The Dial serialized his memoirs monthly from December 1926 to June 1927, which describe his home village, education in Cairo, and travel to the States.

Later that year he moved to New York, where he lived almost all his life.

In 1927, he worked in the New York Public Library with Whittaker Chambers.

During the 1920s and 1930s, he published in The Nation, The New Republic, Commonweal, Poetry, and Ararat (Armenian quarterly).

At some time, he served as editor of two Armenian-American publications: Youth (weekly) and Learning (journal).

Personal and death In 1915, Herald lost his family in Armenia during the Armenian genocide. "Four Poems" (New York: New American Caravan, 1929), pages 340–342 "Job" in New Masses (1930)

Correspondence:

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