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New page: '''Dalton Trumbo''' (1905-1976) was an American screenwriter and author. ==Johnny Got His Gun and HUAC== His most famous work is perhaps ''Johnny Got His Gun'', a bitterly a...
'''Dalton Trumbo''' (1905-1976) was an [[America| American]] screenwriter and author.
==Johnny Got His Gun and HUAC==
His most famous work is perhaps ''Johnny Got His Gun'', a bitterly anti-war novel that won him the National Book Sellers Award in 1939. The book follows the thoughts of a young [[World War I]] American infantryman who becomes a quadruple amputee, as well as deaf, mute, and blind. Having no way to communicate with the outside world, the main character spends most of the book reminiscing about his life and meditating on the futility of [[war]]. The book was released in 1939, shortly before the [[Germany| German]] invasion of [[Poland]]. Perhaps as a result, the [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] callied him to testify on his alleged [[Communist]] sympathies, in spite of the fact that Trumbo himself had ordered production of the book halted after the start of the war.
As Trumbo refused to give any information, Trumbo and ten other Hollywood writers (the [[Hollywood Ten]]) were [[blacklist| blacklisted]], and Trumbo spent 11 months in prison.
==Johnny Got His Gun and HUAC==
His most famous work is perhaps ''Johnny Got His Gun'', a bitterly anti-war novel that won him the National Book Sellers Award in 1939. The book follows the thoughts of a young [[World War I]] American infantryman who becomes a quadruple amputee, as well as deaf, mute, and blind. Having no way to communicate with the outside world, the main character spends most of the book reminiscing about his life and meditating on the futility of [[war]]. The book was released in 1939, shortly before the [[Germany| German]] invasion of [[Poland]]. Perhaps as a result, the [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] callied him to testify on his alleged [[Communist]] sympathies, in spite of the fact that Trumbo himself had ordered production of the book halted after the start of the war.
As Trumbo refused to give any information, Trumbo and ten other Hollywood writers (the [[Hollywood Ten]]) were [[blacklist| blacklisted]], and Trumbo spent 11 months in prison.