Editing Whittaker Chambers (section)

===Communist===
Chambers wrote and edited for the magazine ''[[New Masses]]'' and was an editor for the ''[[Daily Worker]]'' newspaper from 1927 to 1929.<ref name=Britannica/>

Combining his literary talents with his devotion to communism, Chambers wrote four short stories for ''New Masses'' in 1931 about [[proletarian]] hardship and revolt, including ''Can You Make Out Their Voices?'', which was considered by critics as one of the best pieces of fiction of American communism.<ref>{{Harvnb|Tanenhaus|1998|pp=70–71}}</ref> [[Hallie Flanagan]] co-adapted and produced it as a play entitled ''[[Can You Hear Their Voices?]]'' (see [[Bibliography of Whittaker Chambers]]), staged across America and in many other countries. Chambers also worked as a translator, his works including the English version of [[Felix Salten]]'s 1923 novel ''[[Bambi, a Life in the Woods]]''.<ref name=translations>{{cite web
| title = Translations
| publisher = WhittakerChambers.org
| url = http://whittakerchambers.org/books/translations/
| access-date = January 28, 2012
| archive-date = April 13, 2013
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130413171657/http://whittakerchambers.org/books/translations/
| url-status = live
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
| first = Thomas
| last = Vinciguerra
| author-link = Thomas Vinciguerra
| title = The Old College Try
| newspaper = The New York Times
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/03/weekinreview/the-old-college-try.html
| date = October 3, 2004
| access-date = October 31, 2018
| archive-date = October 31, 2018
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181031214939/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/03/weekinreview/the-old-college-try.html
| url-status = live
}}</ref>