Trumbo
By: Bruce Cook ; foreword by John McNamara
Contributors: McNamara, John, 1962- writer of foreword; Cook, Bruce, 1932-2003
Edition: First Grand Central Media tie-in edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781455564972
Subjects: American Authors; Biography; Motion picture authorship; Screenwriters
Description: "Dalton Trumbo was the central figure in the "Hollywood Ten," the blacklisted and jailed screenwriters. One of several hundred writers, directors, producers, and actors who were deprived of the opportunity to work in the motion picture industry from 1947 to 1960, he was the first to see his name on the screen again. When that happened, it was Exodus, one of the year's biggest movies. This intriguing biography shows that all his life Trumbo was a radical of the homegrown, independent variety. From his early days in Colorado, where his grandfather was a county sheriff, to Los Angeles, where he organized a bakery strike, to bootlegging, to Hollywood, where he was the highest-paid screenwriter when he was blacklisted (and a man with constant money problems), his life rivaled anything he had written. His credits include Kitty Foyle, The Brave One, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Spartacus, Lonely are the Brave, and Papillon, and he is the author of a power pacifist novel, Johnny Got His Gun"--Publisher's description.
Notes: Originally published in hardcover as Dalton Trumbo by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The lion in winter; title: Colorado; title: The Davis Perfection Bakery; title: Beginning as a writer; title: Cleo and Johnny; title: The war years; title: The Ten; title: The Blacklist begins; title: Ten months in Kentucky; title: "Engaged in selling"; title: Breaking the Blacklist; title: In the material world; title: Heroes and villains?