Floyd Dell is the author of the plays King Arthur’s Socks (1915) and Little Accident (1928), four novels, including the best-seller Moon-Calf(1920), and the memoir Homecoming (1933). He also published individual poems in journals, and nonfiction books.
Dell was a literary critic for Friday Literary Review and The Masses, a founding member of the Provincetown Players, and an active member of radical writer’s communities in Chicago and New York.
A member of the Socialist Party, Dell was charged with violations of the Espionage Act in 1917 and again in 1919. He moved to DC in 1933 and worked for the WPA and the U.S. Information Service. The DC address was his home from 1935 to 1963, where he and his wife Marie, a DC librarian, raised two sons. The Bethesda address was his final home.
The Homes
1851 Ingleside Terrace NW, Washington, DC
6307 Lone Oak Dr., Bethesda, MD
Floyd Dell
1851 Ingleside Terrace NW
Located in Columbia Heights/Mount Pleasant neighborhood, Northwest- West of Rock Creek
Floyd Dell
6307 Lone Oak Dr.
Located in Maryland