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Louis Alojzi Adamic (March 23, 1899 – September 4, 1951) was a Slovenian-American author and translator. Image File history File links Circle-contradict. ... is the 82nd day of the year (83rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Authorship redirects here. ... Look up Translator in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Adamic was born at the Praproče castle in Blato near Grosuplje, in what is now Slovenia. He came from a peasant family. His limited childhood education was obtained from local schools and Ljubljana from where he was expelled at age 15 ^{[citation needed]} for taking part in student demonstrations against the ruling Austrians. Area: 133. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ...

In 1913, ^{[citation needed]} he emigrated to the United States, and finally settled in the Croatian fishing community of San Pedro, California. He became a naturalized citizen in 1918. At first he worked as a manual labourer and later at a Slovenian daily newspaper, Glas naroda (The voice of a nation). As an American soldier he participated in combat on the Western front during the First World War. After the war he worked as a journalist and professional writer. Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... A memorial statue in Hanko, Finland, commemorating the thousands of emigrants who left the country to start a new life in the United States Emigration is the act of nolan muir the phenomenon of leaving ones native country to settle abroad. ... San Pedro is a community within Los Angeles, California, annexed in 1909 and a major seaport of the area. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... Naturalization is the process whereby a person becomes a national of a nation, or a citizen of a country, other than the one of his birth. ... Manual labour (or manual labor) is physical work done with the hands, especially in an unskilled job such as fruit and vegetable picking, road building, or any other field where the work may be considered physically arduous, and which has as a profitable objective, usually the production of goods. ... This article is about a military rank. ... Combatants Belgium British Empire Australia[1] Canada[2] India[3] Newfoundland[4] New Zealand[5] South Africa[6] United Kingdom France and French Overseas Empire Portugal[7] United States Germany Austria-Hungary Commanders No unified command until 1918, then Ferdinand Foch Moltke → Falkenhayn → Hindenburg and Ludendorff → Hindenburg and Groener Casualties... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ...

All of Adamic's writings are based on his labour experiences in America and his former life in Slovenia. He achieved national acclaim in America in 1934 with his book "The Native's Return," which was a best seller directed against King Alexander's regime in Yugoslavia. This book gave many Americans their first real knowledge of the Balkans. It contained many insights, but proved far from infallible: Adamic predicted that America would prosper by eventually "going left", ie. turning socialist. Year 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... King Alexander I of Yugoslavia also called King Alexander Unificator (Serbian Краљ Александар I Карађорђевић, Latin: Kralj Aleksandar I Karađorđević) (Cetinje, Montenegro, 16 December 1888 – Marseille, France, 9 October 1934) of the Royal House of Karađorđević was the first king of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1929–34) and before... Socialism is a social and economic system (or the political philosophy advocating such a system) in which the economic means of production are owned and controlled collectively by the people. ...

He received the Guggenheim Fellowship award in 1932. During the Second World War he had supported the National liberation struggle (NOB) and a new Yugoslavia. From 1949 he was a corresponding member of the SAZU. Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Yugoslav Partisan Flag The Yugoslav Partisans were one of the two main resistance movements engaged in the fight against the Axis forces in the Balkans during World War II, alongside rival Chetniks, the Yugoslav Peoples Liberation War. ... Capital Belgrade Language(s) Serbo-Croatian (spoken throuout the territory), Slovenian, Macedonian, Albanian, Hungarian (all official), and languages of other nationalities. ... Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts or SASA (Slovenian Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti, SAZU) is a national academy of Slovenia, founded in 1938. ...

From 1940 onewards he served as editor of the magazine Common Ground. Adamic was the author of Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence in America (1931); Laughter in the Jungle: The Autobiography of an Immigrant in America (1932); The Native's Return: An American Immigrant Visits Yugoslavia and Discovers His Old Country (1934); Grandsons: A Story of American Lives (1935, novel); Cradle of Life: The Story of One Man's Beginnings (1936, novel); The House in Antigua (1937, novel); My America (1938); Two-Way Passage (1941); My Native Land (1943); Dinner at the White House (1946); and The Eagle and the Root (1950).

Plagued by failing health, he is believed to have shot himself at his residence in Milford, New Jersey. He died at a time of political tension and intrigue in Yugoslavia, and there was press speculation in America that his death might have been an assassination by some Balkan faction, but no definitive proof of this theory has ever surfaced. Map of Milford in Hunterdon County Milford is a Borough located in western Hunterdon County, New Jersey. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Area  Ranked 47th  - Total 8,729 sq mi (22,608 km²)  - Width 70 miles (110 km)  - Length 150 miles (240 km)  - % water 14. ...

According to John McAleer's Edgar Award-winning Rex Stout: A Biography (1977), it was the influence of Adamic that led Rex Stout to make his fictional detective Nero Wolfe a native of Montenegro, in what was then Yugoslavia. (Wolfe's origins were murky in the early novels.) Stout and Adamic were friends and frequent political allies, and Stout expressed uncertainty to McAleer about the circumstances of Adamic's death. In any case, the demise inspired Stout's novel The Black Mountain, in which Nero Wolfe returns to his homeland to hunt down the killers of an old friend. Rex Stout, full name Rex Todhunter Stout, (December 1, 1886 - October 27, 1975) was an American writer best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe. ... Bitter End — Carl Mueller illustrated Rex Stouts Nero Wolfe novella for The American Magazine (November 1940) Nero Wolfe is a fictional detective, created by the American mystery writer Rex Stout, who made his debut in 1934. ... The Black Mountain is a Nero Wolfe mystery novel by Rex Stout, first published by Viking Press in 1954. ...

Adamic told The Literary Digest: "My name is pronounced in this country (America) exactly as the word Adamic, pertaining to Adam": a-dam'ik. (Charles Earle Funk, What's the Name, Please?, Funk & Wagnalls, 1936.) His original surname was Adamič, pronounced in Slovenian ah-DAH-mich. The Literary Digest was an influential general-interest magazine in the early 20th century United States. ...

References

• Elizabeth Bentley FBI deposition, 30 November 1945, FBI file 65-14603.
• FBI Silvermaster file (PDF format pgs. 38,39, 52,53) pgs. 437, 438, 451, 452 in original.

See also

• Slovenian Americans

Slovenian Americans or Slovene Americans (Slovenian Ameriški Slovenci, literally American Slovenians) are Americans of Slovenian origin. ...

External links

Two articles by Louis Adamic here; http://libcom.org/directory/library/authors/Louis+Adamic