Herman Spector

Herman Spector (1905-1959) was an American poet.

Life
Spector was born and lived his entire life in New York City. He dropped out of high school and worked at a variety of menial jobs. He married and fathered a girl. He was a contributing editor of the Communist journal New Masses, and a contributor to many other periodicals, including Exile, The American Caravan, Free Verse, Transition, and Unrest. His poetry was anthologized in the Anthology of Revolutionary Poetry.