Article: The Final Victim of the Blacklist: John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten.(Book review)

The Final Victim of the Blacklist: John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten

by Gerald Home. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2006. 360 pp., illus. Hardcover: $60 and Paperback: $24.95.

For those readers new to the subject of the Hollywood blacklist, the name of John Howard Lawson may not spark any interest. But from the Twenties through the Forties he cast a longer shadow on Broadway and in Hollywood than many now-better-remembered playwrights and screenwriters. Lawson was one of the founders of the left-wing theater movement (he cofounded New Playwrights and wrote eight plays for it and other left-wing theater groups), a ...

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