Howard Fast

1914 - 2003

Howard Melvin Fast (November 11, 1914 – March 12, 2003) was an American novelist and television writer. Fast also wrote under the pen names E.V. Cunningham and Walter Ericson. 

Fast joined the Communist Party USA in 1943. During the 1950s Fast worked for the Communist newspaper, the Daily Worker, but later that decade he broke with the CPUSA after Nikita Khrushchev's report at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in February 1956, and the Soviet military intervention to suppress the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 in November.

WORKS:

1944: Tito and his People

1945: Lincoln is America

1951: May Day

1955: Message of Greetings to the Congress of the People, Kliptown, South Africa

Fiction

1937: The Children

1942: Goethals and the Panama Canal

1942: The Tall Hunter

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