Playwright, Screenwriter (25-Sep-1894 — 11-Aug-1977)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Gary Carr. The Left Side of Paradise: The Screenwriting of John Howard Lawson. UMI Research Press. 1984. 117pp.

Jonathan L. Chambers. Messiah of the New Technique: John Howard Lawson, Communism, and American Theatre, 1923-1937. Southern Illinois University Press. 2006. 268pp.

Gerald Horne. The Final Victim of the Blacklist: John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten. University of California Press. 2006. 360pp.

AUTHORITIES

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Internet Broadway Database [link]

5. Wikipedia [link]

6. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of American Writers (p.246)

7. The Encyclopedia of Film (p.323)

8. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.404)

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