Laura Z. Hobson, most famous as a spokesman for liberal causes, writes of tolerance for all varieties of human existence. She demands that readers look at unacknowledged prejudices and try to overcome them. She is particularly sensitive to the hypocrisy of the empty-souled liberal's pat phrases of tolerance which cover a fear of anyone who is different.

Hobson was born in 1900 to Adella Kean and Michael Zametkin (editor of a Yiddish newspaper and labor organizer). After her childhood on Long Island, Hobson earned an A.B. at Cornell University and in 1930 married publisher Thayer Hobson, later adopting two sons (Michael and Christopher). Until 1934, she worked as an advertising copy writer. In 1935, she obtained a divorce. Since the mid-1930s, Hobson has made a reputation in several areas of publishing as well as in the capacity of a creative writer. She has worked as consultant and promotion director for...