Cummings, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Lydia Gibson, William Gropper, Ernest Hemingway, Helen Keller, J.J. Lankes, Boardman Robinson, Edmund Wilson, Wanda Gág, and Art Young.

The Liberator ran into trouble in 1922—both financial and motivational, as editor Max Eastman's interests shifted from the mundane work of editing to book writing.

Eastman ceded his editorial blue pencil around January 1, 1922, with literary critic Floyd Dell taking over the job.

Throughout 1922 political matters were somewhat deemphasized in favor of art and culture on Dell's watch, including the first publication of poetry by Claude McKay and the fiction of Michael Gold.

Long articles began to be published by prominent Communist leaders, including C. E. Ruthenberg, John Pepper, William Z.