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Alfred Hayes (18 April 1911 – 14 August 1985) was a American screenwriter, television writer, novelist, and poet, who worked in Italy as well as the United States. His well-known poem about "Joe Hill" ( "I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night") was set to music by Earl Robinson, and performed by Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and many other artists.
May 26, 2020 · May 26, 2020 7:30 AM PT. Over the decades, many young writers arrived in Hollywood with a good novel or two under their belt and never wrote another successful one, losing themselves in lucrative...
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Alfred Hayes has 58 books on Goodreads with 16786 ratings. Alfred Hayes’s most popular book is In Love (Modern Romance Classics).
Jun 15, 2020 · This is FRESH AIR. Our critic-at-large, John Powers, has a review of a new reissue of a novel by Alfred Hayes, who John says is one of our great writers about social and personal...
Mar 25, 2021 · Over a period of some fifty-odd years Alfred Hayes worked as a reporter, a screenwriter, a novelist, and a poet. When he died in 1985 he left behind seven novels, three volumes of poetry, a collection of short stories, and at least a dozen screenplays.
Jul 6, 2018 · Like Asher, his cynical protagonist, Alfred Hayes was a successful Hollywood screenwriter who was sidelined by the studios in the late 1960s. Mel Brooks worked alongside Hayes at Columbia. He...
British screenwriter, novelist, and poet Alfred Hayes was born in London in 1911. He earned a BA at the City College of New York, CUNY, and served in the US Army Special Services during World War II. After the war, he began a long career as a screenwriter, first in Rome and then in Hollywood.
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