Granville Hicks (September 9, 1901 – June 18, 1982) was an American Marxist and later anti-Marxist novelist, literary critic, educator, and editor.
He was an assistant professor of English at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1929–1935) and a counselor in American civilization at Harvard (1938–1939).
Hicks was a highly-influential Marxist literary critic in the 1930s who was well known for his involvement in a number of celebrated causes, including his well-publicized resignation from the Communist Party USA in 1939.
In 1935, Hicks was dismissed from his teaching position at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, which he claimed to be politically motivated, although school officials denied it.
Communist Party General Secretary Earl Browder pressured Hicks to remove several passages that reflected negatively on the Soviet Union but in the end the book was praised for its even-handed and unbiased presentation.
He also wrote the introduction to John Reed's Ten Days that Shook the World (New York: Modern Library, 1935).