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	Howard Fast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Howard Melvin Fast (November 11, 1914 – March 12, 2003) was an American novelist and television writer.
		Shortly afterward, Fast wrote April Morning, an account of the Battle of Lexington and Concord from the perspective of a fictional teenager.
		Fast's son Jonathan Fast, himself a novelist, was the husband of novelist Erica Jong.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Howard_Fast (578 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Howard Fast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		April Morning is a 1961 novel by Howard Fast depicting the Battle of Lexington and Concord from the perspective of a fictional teenager, Adam Cooper.
		Howard Fast (November 11, 1914 – March 12, 2003) was an American novelist and television writer.
		Fast was sympathetic to the antifascist movement and the Popular Front from the onset of his career.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Howard-Fast (1681 words)

	Howard Fast: Comprehensive Bibliography & Texts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Fast said that was more than he ever received for it in royalties*.
		Howard Fast was a well-known name in the 1940s, when he was a best-selling author and controversial public figure.
		Howard Fast wrote mysteries as E.V. Cunningham, including this series of seven starring Masao Masuto, a nisei detective with the Beverly Hills Police Department...
	www.trussel.com /f_how.htm (961 words)

	Howard Fast: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Howard Fast (November 11, EHandler: no quick summary.
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	Howard Fast
		Fast said that his anger at the Khrushchev speech was particularly sharp because of his experience with the American judicial system.
		Fast was convicted in 1946 on a charge of contempt of Congress arising from his refusal to produce the records of the Joint Antifascist Refugee Committee before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
		Fast's fiction was always didactic to a degree, opposed to modernism, engaged in social struggle and insistent on taking sides and teaching lessons of life's moral significance, and he liked it that way.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAfast.htm (1800 words)

	BookPage Interview May 2000: Howard Fast
		In his new novel, Greenwich, Howard Fast lifts the picture-book cover of this posh Connecticut suburb and reveals the currents of ambition, violence, guilt, doubt, and compassion that swirl underneath.
		With the priest and the nun as his primary prisms, Fast also examines the utility of religion in reconciling people to the stresses of life and the prospect of death.
		In a droll shift of perspective, Fast gives the reader intermittent glimpses of the main figures through the eyes of a celebrated African-American chef, who feeds both their stomachs and sense of self-importance, and an Italian-American plumber, who grudgingly mops up their wastes.
	www.bookpage.com /0005bp/howard_fast.html (740 words)

	Books \| Howard Fast
		Fast was driven to publishing his own books - including the bestselling Spartacus - until he broke with the American Communist party, which he had joined in 1943.
		Fast later showed himself to be an insightful diagnostician of the way good people, worthy of affection and respect, were degraded, humiliated, lied to and betrayed by Stalin and his conscienceless henchmen in the American party.
		Fast's departure from the party, and his writings on the party, inevitably attracted the broadsides of party polemicists, well-skilled in the savage denunciation of renegades.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4624752-103684,00.html (1498 words)

	M.E. Sharpe, Inc. - Book Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		And as with every novel by Howard Fast, it is a story that will grip you from the first page to the last, a story of high adventure, of hope and despair and final exultation.
		While Bette, his wife for 57 years, was dying of cancer, Howard Fast decided to pay homage to her by writing a love story.
		Fasts' descriptions are compelling, his plot credible and fast-moving, and his characters are all sympathetic.
	www.mesharpe.com /mall/resultsa.asp?Title=The+Bridge+Builder%27s+Story (658 words)

	Howard Fast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Blacklisted for his Communist activities his criminal record Fast was forced to the novel by his own Blue Heron Unable to publish under his own name used various pseudonyms including E.V. Cunnigham under he published a series of popular detective starring a Nisei detective with the Beverly Hills California Police Department.
		In 1974 Fast and his family moved to California where he wrote television scripts including television programs as How the West Was Won.
		Howard Fast had a gift for historical fiction - particularly for weaving real people and events into politically charged narratives that are vibrant and thought-provoking.
	www.freeglossary.com /Howard_Fast (796 words)

	NewStandard: 8/24/97
		Fast is promoting a new book, "An Independent Woman." It is the sixth and final chapter in his "Immigrants" series, a collection of books Mr.
		And Howard Fast was good to his character, as well, giving her strength, intelligence and dignity.
		Howard Fast came to value human life through the hardships he experienced as a child, and that sentiment permeates both his writing and his philosophies.
	www.s-t.com /daily/08-97/08-24-97/e07ae198.htm (1012 words)

	Howard County, Indiana
		Howard County is one of the youngest of Indiana’s 92 counties.
		Howard County is ideally situated for easy access to shopping, recreational activities, business endeavors, and cultural events.
		Howard County, Greentown, Kokomo and Russiaville are ideally located in that they are just a “stone’s throw away” from several larger cities.
	www.co.howard.in.us (355 words)

	Fast, Howard on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		From 1943 to 1956, Fast was a member of the American Communist party.
		Howard Fast, the last of the proletarian writers.
		Howard Fast, author of "Spartacus," "Citizen Tom Paine," dead at 88
	encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/F/Fast-H1ow.asp (354 words)

	Howard Fast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Howard Fast (November 11, 1914 - March 12, 2003) was an American novel ist and television writer.
		In 1974, Fast and his family moved to California, where he wrote television scripts, including such television program s as How the West Was Won.
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	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Howard_Fast.html (1875 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Howard Fast
		Each of the three had been in the party, although some were more fervent than others in their loyalty to the "movement." Fast's flowery salute certainly raised suspicions that Miller's links with the party had, at the very least, been extremely close.
		Spartacus: Part I (USA, 8-10 p.m.): Based on the novel by Howard Fast, and a rather tame remake of the Kirk Douglas spectacle of 1960, this rewrite emphasizes that revenge undermines the moral order of a community.
		Since the story is based on the Howard Fast novel rather than the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, Spartacus' history in the movies is that of a man taken as a slave as a young boy after seeing his father murdered.
	news.surfwax.com /literature/files/Howard_Fast_Book.html (1096 words)

	BrothersJudd.com - Review of Howard Fast's Spartacus
		Howard Fast wrote his version of this tale in 1950, while imprisoned for refusing to provide names to the House Un-American Activities Committee.
		Fast seems to wish that Spartacus had been more like Nat Turner (see Orrin's review), and that he had engaged in a suicidal attempt to wreak vengeance and overthrow the upper class rulers of Rome, rather than trying to win to freedom.
		Fast leaves the overwhelming impression that the homosexuality of Roman nobles like Crassus was an indicator of the decline of Rome.
	www.brothersjudd.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/372 (1915 words)

	Howard Fast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		JOHN Howard will consider new concessions to fast-track the processing of asylum-seekers offshore in an attempt to quell a backbench revolt over proposed...
		Howard and Jonathan Klein made contact with the SAFER Barrier in Turn 4 in the...
		George S. Howard is the Joseph Morahan Director of the College Seminar Program and...
	www.wikiverse.org /howard-fast (622 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Howard Fast
		In Moses, Howard Fast uses his widely acclaimed storytelling skills to paint a portrait of the most fascinating figure of the Bible.
		Through the strikingly contrasting events of Moses' epic life, Howard Fast traces the growth of his character as a biblical hero.
		The legendary living author of Freedom Road and Citizen Tom Paine, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Spartacus and the triumphant survivor of Hollywood's notorious fllist of the fifties, Howard Fast is a part of American history.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/HowardFasteBooks.htm (579 words)

	Campenni, Frank, 1930-2000, collector.
		Howard Fast was a prolific author of historical novels, biographies, popular histories, children's stories, film scripts, plays, detective fiction, and science fiction.
		The son of Ukrainian immigrants, Barney and Ida Miller Fast, Fast attended George Washington High School in New York City and graduated in 1931 at the age of sixteen.
		Fast refused, citing his 1st Amendment right, and was subsequently sentenced to three months in prison.
	www.uwm.edu /Libraries/arch/findaids/uwmmss213.htm (1236 words)

	Commentary Magazine - My Glorious Brothers, by Howard Fast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		...This Fast seeks to accomplish by putting in the mouth of his Roman legate, a sinister figure, expressions of hatred against the Jews (read "popular democrats") because they represent a threat to the Roman "free slavery" system (read "American 'free enterprise"') and to 'Western civilization" in general...
		...Fast has written the manifesto of this most recent and curious corruption of the radical ideal...
		...Fast's spokesman is particularly violent on this score against the mercenary soldiers of the Seleucid kings...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V6I6P104-1.htm (771 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Children, by Howard Fast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		...Fast you could guess with his first sentence that "I, Ishky" is personal...
		...Fast, the young factory worker of 934, had read this then relatively unknown book (it is now available in a pocket edition...
		...Fast has largely failed to do this, and thus he must present contradictory children who kill instinctively and feel social guilt...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V4I2P105-1.htm (863 words)

	'Spartacus' Novelist Howard Fast, 88, Dies (washingtonpost.com)
		Howard Fast, 88, the best-selling novelist whose books including "Spartacus," "Freedom Road," "Citizen Tom Paine" and "Conceived in Liberty" reflected his own struggles with justice, civil freedoms and the Communist Party, died March 12 at his home in Old Greenwich, Conn. No cause of death was reported.
		Fast wrote more than 80 books but complained that he did not have time to complete more.
		Howard Melvin Fast was a native of New York.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A23286-2003Mar13¬Found=true (1029 words)

	identity theory \| the narrative thread - howard zinn interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Howard Zinn grew up in a working-class family in Brooklyn where he became a shipyard laborer and later, in World War Two, an Air Force bombardier.
		In a career that has spanned over forty years, Howard Zinn, as a professor, radical historian, progressive political theorist, social activist, playwright and author, has brought a fresh, thoughtful, humane and common-sensical approach to the study and teaching of history.
		Howard Fast to do the revolutionary War, John Sayles to do something on the Lowell Mill girls, and a Scottish writer, Paul Laverty, to do something on Columbus and Las Casas.
	www.identitytheory.com /people/birnbaum10.html (4540 words)

	Radical Author Howard Fast Dies, 'Spartacus' Author Was Blacklisted For Communist Belief - CBS News
		Fast died at his home of natural causes, his wife, Mimi Fast, told the Greenwich Time.
		While Fast was the subject of an 1,100-page FBI file in the United States, he was a hero abroad: The Chilean poet Pablo Neruda dedicated verse to him and Pablo Picasso and Diego Rivera also expressed their admiration.
		Ironically, Fast became an example of the American ideal — the self-made man. Through hard work and faith, he attained both money and independence from a childhood of poverty.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/03/13/national/printable543830.shtml (765 words)

	Howard Fast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the 1940s, and again in the 1970s and 1980s, he achieved best-seller status with novels explicitly promoting left-wing ideas.
		Among his Communist nonfiction writings, Literature and Reality (1950) is a vulgar treatise on Marxist criticism, Peekskill, (I.S.A.: A Personal Experience (1951) describes the 1949 attack of anticommunist rioters on a Paul Robeson concert; and The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti (1953) eulogizes the martyred Italian anarchists.
		In 1950 the House Committee on Un-American Activities ordered Fast to provide the names of all those who had contributed to the support of a hospital for Spanish Republicans in Toulouse, France, with which he had been associated during the Spanish Civil War.
	www.english.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/fast-bio.html (492 words)

	wer-weiss-was \| "Howard Fast" \| aus Forum Literatur
		Howard Fast (h e l e n a, 29.10.2004 10:41)
		Re: Howard Fast (j o h a n n a, 30.10.2004 19:25)
		Allerdings bin ich mir ganz sicher, daß die Trilogie, die ich meine von Howard Fast ist.
	www.wer-weiss-was.de /theme73/article2515026.html (743 words)

	Howard Fast
		À travers ce roman noir au suspense prodigieusement conduit, Howard Fast poursuit encore le portrait historique et moral de l’Amérique qu’il n’a jamais cessé de remettre en chantier.
		Si le polar est bien « la grande littérature morale de notre temps », Howard Fast y a trouvé l’expression qui convenait à son témoignage exigeant.
		Howard Fast, qui lui donne ici visage et parole, a écrit Spartacus en 1951, en sortant des geôles de la chasse aux sorcières.
	www.editions-l-atalante.com /pages/auteurs/fictions/fast.htm (468 words)

	epilog Person - Howard Fast (1914-2003) Amerikanischer Schriftsteller
		Howard Melvin Fast wurde 1914 als Sohn russischer Einwanderer in New York geboren und absolvierte ein Studium an der National Academy of Design.
		Fast gehörte damals als Mitglied dem Zentralkomitee der Kommunistischen Partei der USA an und verweigerte vor dem Untersuchungsausschuss des US-Kongresses die Aussage.
		Seine politische Einstellung machte ihn in der Sowjetunion und den mit ihr assoziierten Staaten sehr populär, seine Bücher erschienen dort in großen Auflagen.
	www.epilog.de /Person/F/Far_Fat/Fast_Howard_1914.htm (320 words)

	Espartaco' de Howard Fast/ diciembre2003
		Fast purgó con varios meses de prisión la audacia de negarse a facilitar al Comité de Actividades Antiamericanas la lista de los miembros del Comité de Ayuda a los Refugiados Antifascistas, que trabajaba en favor de los republicanos españoles huidos del franquismo.
		El Espartaco de Fast no fue la primera versión sobre el esclavo de Roma con impronta marxista.
		Del libro de Fast hay una edición en castellano de la editorial argentina Lautaro (ya desaparecida), de 1953.
	www.liceus.com /cgi-bin/ac/07/espartaco.asp (349 words)

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