![]() No one, living or dead, could introduce her as well as Paul Avrich does with this biography, which is as inspiring to readers as Emma Goldman’s Living My Life or Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed. De Cleyre pressed her cause when anyone else would have dropped the activism due to poverty and sickness. Because I relished Avrich’s writing already, because I had the enthusiasm of a recent convert to anarchist thinking, I could hardly wait to read de Cleyre’s biography.Īvrich presented to his readers the depth and intensity of this intellectual powerhouse who repeatedly made sacrifices and endangered herself in order to stay true to her principles, which she never once compromised for her own safety’s sake. I knew de Cleyre only as a figure mentioned in Avrich’s later book The Haymarket Tragedy. ![]() In 1990, I walked into a tiny anarchist bookstore and found a rare copy of An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre by Paul Avrich. ![]() Foreword to the 40th Anniversary Edition of An American Anarchist ![]()
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