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The John Howard Lawson papers, 1905-1977, offers over one hundred boxes of correspondence and manuscripts, scrapbooks, photographs, tapes, audio recordings, and forty-six books, including early diaries and his unpublished autobiography. Materials relate to his career in theater and film, personal relationships, and time in jail.
Aug 14, 2006 · Horne discussed Lawson's struggle with NPR's Farai Chideya. FARAI CHIDEYA reporting: Tell us a story that epitomizes who John Howard Lawson was at the height of his career before all of this happened.
With his latest book, a biography of the noted Communist writer John Howard Lawson, Gerald Horne makes another successful bid for a more nuanced approach to the story of American Communism. Horne reveals Lawson as an almost protean figure on the literary left, venerated both on Broadway and in Hollywood, whose career was interrupted—but not ...
By the early 1930s, John Howard Lawson was a bicoastal pioneer, a frequent traveler on trains shuttling between midtown Manhattan and downtown Los Angeles. He was compensated amply and had attained a critical acclaim, being viewed by some as the “hope” of the stage and an important voice of the screen.
Nov 22, 2017 · The FBI routinely opened the mail of a Hollywood screenwriter blacklisted for his membership in the U.S. Communist Party before, during and after World War II, tracking John Howard Lawson as he ...
Sep 19, 2006 · Before he attained notoriety as Dean of the Hollywood Ten—the blacklisted screenwriters and directors persecuted because of their varying ties to the Communist Party—John Howard Lawson had become one of the most brilliant, successful, and intellectual screenwriters on the Hollywood scene in the 1930s and 1940s, with several hits to his credit including Blockade, Sahara, and Action in the ...
Before he attained notoriety as Dean of the Hollywood Ten--the blacklisted screenwriters and directors persecuted because of their varying ties to the Communist Party--John Howard Lawson had become one of the most brilliant, successful, and intellectual screenwriters on the Hollywood scene in the 1930s and 1940s, with several hits to his credit including Blockade, Sahara, and Action in the ...
