About the author After the war Dell published the best-selling autobiographical novel, Moon-Calf (1920).Other novels such as The Briary-Bush(1921), Janet Marsh(1923)and Runaway(1925), were less successful As well as writing for the left-wing magazines such as the New Masses(1924-39)Dell produced several non-fictional works including Upton Sinclair(1927), Love in the Machine Age 1930) and an autobiography, Homecoming 1933). Floyd Dell died in 1969About the author • After the war Dell published the best-selling autobiographical novel, Moon-Calf (1920). Other novels such as The Briary-Bush (1921), Janet Marsh (1923) and Runaway (1925), were less successful. As well as writing for the left-wing magazines such as the New Masses (1924-39) Dell produced several non-fictional works including Upton Sinclair (1927), Love in the Machine Age (1930) and an autobiography, Homecoming (1933). Floyd Dell died in 1969