Franklin Rosemont

Franklin Rosemont was born in Chicago in 1943. His father, Henry, was a labor activist, and his mother, Sally, a jazz musician. He edited and wrote an introduction for What Is Surrealism? Selected Writings by André Breton , and edited Rebel Worker , Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion , The Rise and Fall of the Dill Pickle , and Juice Is Stranger than Friction: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim . With Penelope Rosemont and Paul Garon he edited The Forecast Is Hot! His work was deeply concerned with...See more

Franklin Rosemont was born in Chicago in 1943. His father, Henry, was a labor activist, and his mother, Sally, a jazz musician. He edited and wrote an introduction for What Is Surrealism? Selected Writings by André Breton , and edited Rebel Worker , Arsenal/Surrealist Subversion , The Rise and Fall of the Dill Pickle , and Juice Is Stranger than Friction: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim . With Penelope Rosemont and Paul Garon he edited The Forecast Is Hot! His work was deeply concerned with both the history of surrealism (writing a foreword for Max Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth ) and of the radical labor movement in America. For several decades he and Penelope Rosemont combined such interests helming the venerable radical publishing house the Charles H. Kerr Co. He died in 2009 in Chicago. See less