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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 . Biography
The Proud and the Free is a historical novel by Howard Fast that was published in 1950. It tells the story of the Pennsylvania Line Mutiny from the enlisted men 's point of view. [ 1 ]
The Immigrants (1977) is a historical novel written by Howard Fast.Set in San Francisco during the early 20th century, it tells the story of Daniel Lavette, a self-described "roughneck" who rises from the ashes of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and becomes one of the most successful and dominating figures in San Francisco.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Novels by Howard Fast" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Blue Heron Press was a way for Fast to publish his book Spartacus, which at the time was blacklisted. Spartacus became the first book published by the new press. In 1953, Blue Heron Press published a reprint of W. E. B. Du Bois ' The Souls of Black Folk , which was the eighth book published by Blue Heron Press.
My Glorious Brothers is a historical novel by the Jewish American novelist Howard Fast, depicting the 167 BC Maccabeean revolt against the Greek-Seleucid Empire. [1] The book, which deals with Jewish independence and self-determination, was published in 1948, during the 1948 Palestine war.
Spartacus is a 1951 historical novel by American writer Howard Fast. It is about the historic slave revolt led by Spartacus around 71 BC. The book inspired the 1960 film directed by Stanley Kubrick and the 2004 TV adaptation by Robert Dornhelm .
The book begins with an incident in 1781 when a small detachment of Hessian (German auxiliaries in the British service) soldiers encounter a mentally disabled man, Saul Clamberham, on a Connecticut hill-side.