Marxists Internet Archive: Howard Fast
Howard Fast1914 - 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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Last updated on 30 Septemeber 2023, by JF