Howard Fast
Howard Fast · Arts & Literature
Novelist; author of Spartacus and My Glorious Brothers, jailed in 1950 for refusing to name names before the House Un-American Activities Committee
11 November 1914, New York City, United States — 12 March 2003, Old Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
United States
Howard Fast is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Novelist; author of Spartacus and My Glorious Brothers, jailed in 1950 for refusing to name names before the House Un-American Activities Committee
Howard Fast was the son of Jewish immigrants — his mother Ida from Britain, his father Barney from Ukraine, who had shortened the family name from Fastovsky. He was jailed in 1950 for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and wrote Spartacus in prison and after it, publishing it himself when no house would touch him; the Kubrick film of 1960 broke the Hollywood blacklist. His My Glorious Brothers retold the Maccabean revolt for a modern readership.
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Novelist; author of Spartacus and My Glorious Brothers, jailed in 1950 for refusing to name names before the House Un-American Activities Committee
Source: Wikipedia — Howard Fast
