“Writers are usually unabashed about claiming authorship for their work. So it’s curious that many of the alumni of one of the most significant American literary projects of the 20th century were ashamed of it: the Federal Writers’ Project, a program of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration. Created in 1935, in the heart of the Great Depression, the Writers’ Project supported more than 6,600 writers, editors and researchers during its four years of federal financing.” Still, many of the writers involved in the WPA project were ashamed of their participation, and so their work has gone largely unnoticed in the years since the program’s demise. A new exhibit at the Library of Congress aims to change that.