The God That Failed Author:Gide, Wright, Silone, Spender, Koestler, Fischer Why Six Great Writers Rejected Communism — 6 of the most famous writers of the century, including the American, Richard Wright, the great Italian realist, Ignazio Silone, and the Nobel Prize-winner, Andre Gide, tell how their search for the betterment of humanity led them to Communism, and the personal agony and revulsion which caused them to rej... more »ect it.« less