Conceived in liberty howard fast biography
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HOWARD FAST (b. 1914)
Alan Wald, Univ. of Michigan
[from Buhle, Buhle, and Georgakas, eds., ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE AMERICAN LEFT, (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1992).]
A prolific author of historical novels, biographies, popular histories, children's stories, film scripts, plays, detective fiction, science fiction, and "Zen Stories," Fast also wrote "entertainments" under the pseudonym E.
V. Cunningham. In the 1940s, and again in the 1970s and 1980s, he achieved best-seller status with novels explicitly promoting left-wing ideas.
Conceived in liberty howard fast biography
Born the son of a factory worker in New York City, Fast dropped out of high school and published his first novel before he was twenty. Within a few years, he had issued more than half a dozen historical novels about the American Revolutionary War period, including Conceived in Liberty (1939), The Unvanquished (1942), and Citizen Tom Paine (1943).
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