Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Waldo Frank (August 25, 1889 January 9, 1967) was a prolific novelist, historian, literary and social critic. Most well-known for his studies of Spanish and Latin American literature, Frank served as chairman of the First Americans Writers Congress (April 26-27, 1935) and became the first president of the League of American Writers.Frank was born into a comfortably-off Jewish family In Long Branch, New Jersey. He was a precocious intellect, and was expelled from high school for refusing to take a Shakespeare course saying that he knew more than the teacher. He completed boarding school in Lausanne, Switzerland and returned to the United States to take a B.A. and an M.A. from Yale University in 1911.