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Mike Quin (1906–1947) was the pen name of an American writer, born Paul William Ryan. Ryan wrote under the name, Mike Quin, for his newspaper writing and his early novels. Later in his career he wrote pulp fiction under another pseudonym, Robert Finnegan. He died on August 14, 1947, and was buried in San Francisco, California.〔Mike Quin at Library Thing site http://www.librarything.com/author/quinmike〕 His ''The Big Strike'' was a journalistic work on the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike. He worked several different jobs. He was a sailor, a Hollywood bookstore worker, a writer for the International Longshoreman’s and Warehouseman’s Union and the WPA Writers’ Project, Director of Public Relations, CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations), “CIO Reporter on the Air”, ''Daily People’s World'' columnist, National Maritime Union broadcast producer.〔GOLDEN GATE MYSTERIES: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CRIME FICTION: SET IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/sfmystery/extras/biographies.html〕〔http://www.bibliopolis.com/main/books/publisher/The%20Daily%20People%27s%20World%20%26%20The%20Mike%20Quin%20Memorial%20Fund%20to%20Aid%20Young%20Writers%20and%20Artists.html〕 (The People's World was the Communist Party of America's west coast daily newspaper.) He was active in the Communist Party. Many of his books were published by the party's publishing house, International Publishers. He was a founding member of ''The Yanks are Not Coming'' committee to keep the United States out of World War II〔GOLDEN GATE MYSTERIES: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CRIME FICTION: SET IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/sfmystery/extras/biographies.html〕 during the period of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. ==Selected bibliography== *''(The Big Strike ),'' (Olema Publishing Company, Olema, California, 1949) - Available at the Internet Archive. *''(More Dangerous Thoughts ),'' (The People's World, San Francisco, 1941) - Available at the Internet Archive. *''(On the Drumhead: A Selection from the Writing of Mike Quin; A Memorial Volume )'' (The Daily People's World, 1948) - Available at the Internet Archive. Book includes a photo of Mike Quin with his wife and daughter and a short biography. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mike Quin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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