Sender Garlin

Sender Garlin (April 4, 1902 – December 6, 1999) was an American journalist, pamphleteer, and writer.

Sender Garlin was born in Bialystok, Poland, on April 4, 1902. His family left the country in 1906 to escape pogroms. Among his six siblings were Tiba Willner Sam Garlen [1], and Charles Garlen.

In the U.S., his family lived in Burlington, Vermont, and Glens Falls, New York, where his parents ran a bakery. Garlin studied at the University of Wisconsin, New York University's Law School, Albany Law School, the New School for Social Research, and the Rand School of Social Science. One of his professors was Scott Nearing. Garlin told historian Howard Zinn:

Reading The Appeal to Reason and the writings of Upton Sinclair, Sender at thirteen or fourteen considered himself a socialist. He said: "In later years, it was Karl Marx who recreated me with his criticism of this cruel, unjust society... No one has refuted his fundamental critique."

Garlin worked on the staff at the Daily Worker newspaper for 17 years (1927-1943) and was associate editor (1950-1952) of New World Review. He was a founding editor of Partisan Review magazine and a charter member of the American Newspaper Guild. He was also a member of the John Reed Club. University of Colorado

For the Worker, he covered the Moscow purge trials and the trial of the Scottsboro Boys and the Gastonia textile strike of 1929. He also reported on the Minneapolis General Strike of 1934.

Interviews included: Clarence Darrow, Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons, Huey Long, Nadezhda Krupskaya, and Olga Knipper-Chekhova.

He wrote the Daily Worker's obituary cum condemnation of Walter Krivitsky in 1941.