Victor Francis Calverton was the pseudonym of George Goetz (1900–1940), an unaffiliated American left-radical writer and literary critic.
Calverton founded the Modern Quarterly, wrote 18 monographs and was editor of An Anthology of American Negro Literature (1929).
Calverton married twice; his second wife was actress and social worker Nina Melville.
[2] Calverton founded the Modern Quarterly, a politics and arts magazine which ran from 1923 to 1933.
It was notable for publishing opposing views within the same issue and supporting the work of black intellectuals.