Dalton Trumbo

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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 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 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 blacklisted, and Trumbo spent 11 months in prison.

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