biography
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Fast, Howard (Melvin)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1914–2003)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in New York City, New York, USA. As a professional writer after 1932, he became a leading proponent of left-wing views. He was blacklisted for a decade for his Communist Party membership (1944–56), but in 1957 he declared his disenchantment with the Communism of Stalin in The Naked God. Of his dozens novels, children's books, biographies, and plays, he was best known for his historical novels, including Freedom Road (1944), Spartacus (1952), and The Immigrants (1977). His last novel, Greenwich, appeared in 2000. |
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