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About Howard Fast
| 1,000 Honor Howard Fast At Peace Prize | 1,300 Crowd NYU Building To Hear Fast | 100 at Columbia Hear Communist |
| 11 Anti-Fascists Speak At Mass Rally Tonight | 11 Anti-Fascists Take Case to People | 11 Who Kept Faith |
| 25 Victims to Ask Top Court Rule Against | Academic Freedom? | Adrian Scott, Howard Fast to Speak at Rally |
| Artist -- Conscience of the People | At Age 81, Howard Fast is Writing... | Attack on Howard Fast's Book (The American) |
| Author Interview: Howard Fast | Author reflects on years as a communist | Author/Playwright a Fast Man with Kind Words |
| Ban By Columbia On Fast Condemned | Ban on Citizen Tom Paine Raises Storm | Banned Books; informal notes on some books |
| Behind the Bestsellers | Being Read: The Career of Howard Fast | Books are Burning |
| Calas menores | Cameos: The Novelist | Captive Not Quite Freed |
| Case of Howard Fast | CBS Radio Interview with Howard Fast | CBS Radio Interview with Howard Fast |
| CBS Radio Interview with Howard Fast | Citizen Howard Fast: A Critical Biography | Citizen Tom Paine |
| 'Clarkton' Too Hot for Times Critic | Columbia Bars Talk on Campus By Fast | Columbia Officials Bar Fast at Forum |
| Columbia Students Win Right To Choose Speakers | Columbia University Bars Howard Fast as Speaker | Columbia University's ban on Fast |
| Comment by the Editors | Communism in the United States: a bibliography | Communist Controversy in Washington |
| Confession by a Stalin Prizewinner | Conversation with Howard Fast, March 23, 1994 | Crimes of the Stalin Era |
| Cunningham, E.V. | Current biography yearbook, 1991 | Desertion Under Fire |
| Dilemma in New York | Dr. Compton Quits as Head of 'Voice' | E.V. Cunningham |
| Editors' note | Education Board Bans 'Paine' Book | 'Ekh Govard!': Istoriia odnogo neotpravlenogo |
| Encyclopedia of frontier and western fiction | Epic Revolt | Ex-Communist Memoirs of Howard Fast |
| Exhibit Howard Fast's Books | Fall and Rise of Spartacus | Fast Finds Forum on N.Y.U. Campus |
| Fast friend | Fast Living: Author's "Being Red" | Fast Memories |
| Fast Plea | Fast receives Stalin Peace Prize | Fast to Address Rally |
| Fast to Speak at American Jewish Cultural | Fast to Write in Jail if Permitted | Fast way to prolific populist prose |
| Fast, Howard | Fast, Howard (b. 1914) | Fast, Howard (Melvin) |
| Fast, Howard (Melvin) | Fast, Howard (Melvin) | Fast, Howard (Melvin) |
| Fast, Howard (Melvin) | Fast, Howard Melvin | Fast, Howard Melvin |
| Fast, Howard, author | Fast, Rogge to Speak at NYU Today | Fast's Life is a Saga Too |
| Fast's Play 'The Hammer' Presented by New | Fast's 'Rachel' Makes a Nice Film | Fast's Stories |
| FBI's surveillance of writers | Fiction of the Forties | Fine Old Conflict |
| First Mash Unit | Foreword to "Time and the Riddle" | Foreword to The Last Frontier |
| Forum on Negro in U.S. Theatre Tonite | Freedom Is Indivisible - Howard Fast | Hearings Before the Permanent Subcommittee |
| High Court Rules Jail For Barsky, Fast | History and Conscience | History in the Fast Lane |
| Hollywood '10' Salute Eleven Anti-Fascists | Hollywood Writers 'Stand In' for Anti-Fascists at | Hope for the Heart and Food for the Soul |
| Howard Fast | Howard Fast | Howard Fast |
| Howard Fast | Howard Fast | Howard Fast |
| Howard Fast | Howard Fast | Howard Fast |
| Howard Fast - Shape of the Political Memoir | Howard Fast at 80 | Howard Fast Hits U.S. Policies |
| Howard Fast in a New Mode | Howard Fast Refused Passport | Howard Fast Speaks |
| Howard Fast talks about his craft | Howard Fast to Write New Column | Howard Fast, Best-Selling... Dies at 88 |
| Howard Fast, Dr. Bradley Free | Howard Fast, James T. Farrell | Howard Fast, Mother Bloor |
| Howard Fast: a critical companion | Howard Fast: archive material | Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane |
| Howard Fast: Oral history interview | Howard Fast: Wool Puller? | Howard Fast's Many Sides |
| Howard Fast's New Novel 'Clarkton' | Howard Fast's One-Man Reformation | Hunter Bars Fast; N.Y.U. Permits Talk |
| IN MEMORIAM: Howard Fast, 1914-2003 | Interview with Howard Fast | Interview with Howard Fast |
| Interview With Howard Fast | Interview with Howard Fast | Introduction to "Time and the Riddle" |
| Introduction to Citizen Tom Paine | It seemed like a good idea at the time | Jews in America |
| Laureates of Peace | Legacy of Howard Fast | Legend of Grandeur |
| Letter From Howard Fast | Letter From Louis Untermeyer | Life in the Howard Fast Lane |
| Look Here. Howard Fast | Lost Dreams of Howard Fast | Man in the Middle: Unsung Classic |
| McCarthy Lays 'Sabotaging' to 'Voice' | McCarthy 'Tried' Here | Mirror for the Nation |
| More Comments on Howard Fast | More Comments on Howard Fast | More Comments on Howard Fast |
| More Comments on Howard Fast | More Comments on Howard Fast | Mother Bloor Lauds 'Clarkton' |
| Mr. Fast Explains | Mr. Fast Sends a Letter to China | Never Again? |
| New Love, New Novel: At 82 | Noticing Howard Fast | OBITUARY: Howard Fast, R.I.P. |
| official reader's report on Spartacus | Old-fashioned values | On Stage: Howard Fast's First Play, 'The Hammer' |
| On Stage: Howard Fast's Play Opens Tonite; | Open Letter to Howard Fast | Opening Night of Howard Fast Play Completely Sold |
| Passport Denied to Fast, Novelist | PCA Challenges School Ban On Novels | Peekskill, U.S.A. |
| Prolific radical novelist | Prominent Literary Figures Speak Up | Radical Novel 1900-1954: |
| Reds Renounced by Howard Fast | review of The Last Frontier | School Ban Asked on 'Citizen Paine' |
| Shoulder-to-Shoulder Concert notice | Son of a writer | Southern Negro Youth Congress |
| Soviet Writers Reply | Sovremennaëiìa | 'Spartacus' Novelist Howard Fast, 88, Dies |
| Spartacus: An Interview with Howard Fast | Spartacus: Variations on a Theme | Students at 3 Colleges Fight Speech Curbs |
| Suspense Novel By Howard Fast | Symposium Examines Howard Fast's Life | Talent for All Times |
| Teachers Are Held Political Censors | Thief's Victims | To Howard Fast (poem) |
| Travail of the U.S. Communists | Treason in Congress | Turning Citizen Tom Paine into a play |
| Two Groups Protest Ban on 'Tom Paine' | Two More Colleges Bar Fast Address | Uncle Sam is the Heavy |
| University Battleground | VFW offers Fast one-way ticket to Moscow | View from Greenwich |
| Voice Must Drop Works of Leftists | Who They Are | word ... and Howard Fast |
| Writer and Society | Writers in the Shadow of Communism | Writers on the Left: Episodes in American |
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1941.
La Farge, Oliver.
[review of The Last Frontier].
in: Saturday Review, July 26, 1941.
Howard Fast cover by Poletzer.
THIS novel is something new in Americana. At first sight one recognizes that it comes out of the healthy, increasing trend to rewrite the history of our frontier with a new honesty which has tended, first, to be reasonably truthful at last about the Indians on whose dead bodies America was founded, and more recently to perceive that the Indians, too, are a part of American society and that our treatment of them was and is a part of our democracy's success or failure. "The Last Frontier," a novelized history of the flight of the Northern Cheyennes from Oklahoma to Montana, and of the series of whip-pings they administered to the United States Army, does belong among these treatments of a vivid sector of our history. But by its unusual angle of presentation as well as the unusual quality of Mr. Fast's writing, it becomes something new, a book to be hailed with joy and read for pure pleasure and excitement. |
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| 1943.
anon.
Fast, Howard (Melvin).
in: Current Biography, p.200-202.
H.W. Wilson.
Bronx, NY.
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| 1945.
Hicks, Granville.
Howard Fast's One-Man Reformation.
in: College English, VII, October 1945 (1-6).
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| 1946.
anon.
[program: Southern Negro Youth Congress Cultural Festival, Oct. 19, 1946; Columbia, SC].
A performance by Paul Robeson at Columbia's Township Auditorium.
A letter by Hennig Cohen, June 26, 1993, explains that the event "was essentially an attempt to organize a leftist supported movement on behalf of the political and social welfare of southern blacks.The times were not auspicious." Cohen attended mainly to hear Robeson and Howard Fast and noted that"several of the blacklisted Hollywood producers and directors" were there and "made a big thing ofannouncing their plans to make a movie of Howard Fast's Freedom Road, based on Robert Smalls, with Robeson as the star. As far as I know nothing came of it either.".
South Caroliniana Manuscript Collections.
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| 1947.
anon.
Ban on Citizen Tom Paine Raises Storm in NYC.
in: Publisher's Weekly, 151(1134) Feb 15'47.
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| 1947.
anon.
The Books are Burning.
in: Daily Worker, Oct. 4,13,15 1947.
[ads for "The Books are Burning" - protest meeting for Howard Fast - Oct.16'47].
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| 1947.
anon.
Fast to Address Rally.
in: The New York Times, p. 35, Dec 12'47.
[banned at Brooklyn College, Fast will speak at adjacent high school].
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| 1947.
anon.
Academic Freedom?
in: The New York Times, Sec.4 p.2E, Dec 14'47.
[On controversy of Fast's ban as speaker at NY colleges].
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| 1947.
anon.
[Columbia University's ban on Fast as speaker].
in: NY Times Dec 15'47, p.24.
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1948.
Kahn, Albert E.
Treason in Congress, the Record of the Un-American Activities Committee.
introduction by O. John Rogge, former Asst. Attorney General.
32 pp,
pbk,
(persecution by HUAC of Gerhart Eisler, Howard Fast, J.H. Lawson...).
Progressive Citizens of America.
New York.
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| IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT to overestimate the extent to which liberty and democracy in the United States are currently endangered by the operations of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Scarcely a day passes without some new abridgement of freedom, some fresh violation of civil rights, resulting from the Committee's activities... |
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1948.
anon.
High Court Rules Jail For Barsky, Fast.
in: Daily Worker, p.1, June 15, 1948.
| WASHINGTON, June 15 - The United States Supreme Court today refused to hear appeals by 11 executive board members of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee against contempt of Congress convictions. In turning down the case, the high court upheld verdicts of six months in jail and $500 fine for Dr. Edward K. Barsky, chairman of the group, and three months in jail and $500 fine for novelist Howard Fast and nine others... |
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| 1948.
anon.
Who They Are.
in: Daily Worker, p.2, June 16, 1948.
[the 11 members of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee Board sentenced for contempt].
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| 1948.
Maltz, Albert.
Fast Plea.
in: Saturday Review of Literature, 31(23) Aug 14'48.
[letter to the editor].
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1949.
Rubin, Barnard.
Fast's Stories.
in: Masses & Mainstream, pp 84-86, Oct '49.
[review of Fast's "Departure and Other Stories"].
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| A NEW BOOK by Howard Fast, today the most internationally honored American novelist wherever books are read by honest, progressive people, is always an event of tremendous interest - and this courageous writer's present offering, Departure and Other Stories, dedicated to the men of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, is no exception. For here again Fast does what no other American writer whose works have sold in the hundreds of thousands, and millions, is doing today: he presents Communists as human beings, good human beings, heroic human beings; and gives us poignant, exciting and truthful stories about them... |
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| 1950.
Anisimov, Ivan Ivanovich [1899-1966], ed.
Sovremennaëiìa amerikanskaëiìa literatura; sbornik statei.
236 pp,
20 cm,
(Cyrillic).
Gos. izd-vo khudozh.
Moskva.
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| 1950.
Sillen, Samuel.
Writer and Society.
in: Masses & Mainstream, pp 76-79, March '50.
[review of Fast's "Literature and Reality"].
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| 1951.
Silber, Irwin.
"Peekskill, U.S.A.".
in: Sing Out!, 1951.
People's Artists Inc., 106 E. 14th St., NYC.
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| 1951.
Lasky, Victor.
The Case of Howard Fast.
in: New Leader 34(14-15) Nov 5'51.
[Fast is alleged to be one of the few communist intellectuals who really believes the Party line].
[Seidman L112]
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1952.
Wilkerson, Doxey A.
An Epic Revolt.
in: Masses & Mainstream, pp 53-58, March '52.
[review of Fast's "Spartacus"].
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| "SPARTACUS" is a powerful novel of ancient slave society with rich meaning for the liberation struggle of our day. It is brilliantly written, and in certain sections probably represents the high point in the development of Howard Fast's superb craftsmanship... |
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| 1952.
anon.
Mr. Fast Sends a Letter to China.
in: American Mercury, 75(7) Jul'52.
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| 1952.
anon.
[Fast receives Stalin Peace Prize].
in: NY Times, p.15, Dec 12'52.
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| 1952.
anon.
[VFW offers Fast one-way ticket to Moscow].
in: NY Times, p.17, Dec 29'52.
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| 1953.
anon.
Hearings Before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, Eighty-Third Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S.Res. 40 (parts I,II).
Parts I and II (of 9),
Fast's appearance before the Committee with regard to VOA.
US Government Printing Office.
Washington.
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| 1953.
Likfa, Marion.
Howard Fast: Wool Puller?
in: Catholic World, 177(446-51) Sep'53.
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| 1953.
North, Joseph.
Legend of Grandeur.
in: Masses & Mainstream, pp 58-60, Dec '53.
[review of Fast's "The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti"].
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| 1954.
anon.
Laureates of Peace.
in: Masses & Mainstream 7:1(8) Jan'54.
[editorial congratulating Fast on receiving the 1953 Stalin Peace Prize].
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| 1955.
anon.
Howard Fast.
in: Twentieth Century Authors [First Supplement].
St. James Press.
London.
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| 1955.
Sillen, Samuel.
University Battleground.
in: Masses & Mainstream, pp 52-55, January 1955.
[review of "Silas Timberman"].
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| 1956.
Kalinowska, Fryderyka.
Howard Fast.
134 pp,
8o, with illustrations, including a portrait.
Warszawa.
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| 1956.
anon.
Confession by a Stalin Prizewinner.
in: London Observer, Jun.16'56.
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1956.
Never Again?
in: Time, 67(15) Jun 25'56.
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| On the 74th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Stalin, Novelist Howard Fast was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize (value about $25,000 tax-free) for 1953 – the highest honor," he called it, "that can be conferred on any person in these times." New York City-born Author Fast, (Citizen Tom Paine, Freedom Road) commended himself to the Kremlin by his judgments on the Communist Party ("No nobler, no finer product of man's existence") and the mid-century U.S. ("Only one virtue remains – betrayal – and the only measure of human worth is the measure of a pimp"). Beyond these words his deeds included a three months jail sentence in 1950 for contempt of Congress, and an emotional message to the leaders of Red China who were battling U.S. troops during the Korean war: "My heart is with you in the mighty struggle..." |
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| 1956.
Lyons, Eugene.
A Letter From Howard Fast.
in: New Leader, p.6-8, Jul 9'56, p.16-20 Jul'20'56, p.2,29 Aug 20'56 (Norman Thomas).
'An Open Letter to Howard Fast' (regarding his column in the NY Daily Worker Jun 12'56, expressing his feelings about the revelations regarding the Stalin regime in Russia).
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| 1956.
Lyons, Eugene.
An Open Letter to Howard Fast [praising Fast's final Worker column].
in: The New Leader 39(6-8) Jul 9'56.
[Seidman L389]
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| 1956.
Walzer, Michael.
The Travail of the U.S. Communists.
in: Dissent 3(406-10) Fall'56.
[Fast's revulsion with the Khrushchev revelations must lead him out of the CPUSA].
[Seidman W17]
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1957.
Seligman, Daniel.
Dilemma in New York.
in: Fortune Magazine, p. 101, Feb'57.
[first published notice of Fast's leaving the Communist Party, p.238].
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| Fortune magazine was preparing an article about the Communist movement in America, and they telephoned to ask whether I would be interviewed. I told them that I was no longer a member of the party but that I would be willing to be interviewed. Nevertheless, when the Fortune article appeared in January 1957, it carried the news that I had left the party. On the day of its appearance, Harry Schwartz, an editor of The New York Times, called me and demanded to know whether the Fortune piece was right... |
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1957.
anon.
Comment by the Editors.
in: Mainstream, p.39-47, Mar'57.
[on Fast's "My Decision" to leave the Communist Party].
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[Seidman F56]
| BEFORE commenting on Howard Fast's article we should perhaps first say from what standpoint we view it. Obviously we are in no position to speak in the name, nor even in behalf of the Communist Party. But as editors of our country's only Left cultural periodical what Mr. Fast says concerns us deeply. He says it at a time when the socialist-oriented forces in the United States are beset with many baffling problems and their confusion - his document is an example - is very great; yet when the need to achieve some sort of working co-operation, if not unity, is apparent to almost all. It is within that larger context, communist and non-communist, that his opinion falls, and it is one we believe he will eventually relinquish... |
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1957.
Aptheker, Herbert.
More Comments on Howard Fast.
in: Mainstream, pp 42-47, April 1957.
[on Fast's Mainstream explanation of his leaving the Communist Party].
*
 HOWARD FAST, eminent American novelist, felt it necessary to leave the Communist Party, and advisable to announce this decision in an exclusive interview with Harry Schwartz of the New York Times. At the request of the editors of Mainstream, Mr. Fast explained at length, in its pages, the reasons for his decision.
As one who is himself a member of the Communist Party and has come to his own decision - to remain a member - I propose to comment, briefly, since space limitations are severe, upon Howard Fast's article. |
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| 1957.
Bonosky, Phillip.
More Comments on Howard Fast.
in: Mainstream, pp 47-51, April, 1957.
[on Fast's Mainstream explanation of his leaving the Communist Party].
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| 1957.
Starobin, Joseph.
More Comments on Howard Fast.
in: Mainstream, pp 51-54, April, 1957.
[on Fast's Mainstream explanation of his leaving the Communist Party].
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| 1957.
Cochran, Bert.
More Comments on Howard Fast.
in: Mainstream, pp 54-55, April, 1957.
[on Fast's Mainstream explanation of his leaving the Communist Party].
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| 1957.
Harap, Louis.
More Comments on Howard Fast.
in: Mainstream, pp 55-56, April, 1957.
[on Fast's Mainstream explanation of his leaving the Communist Party].
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1957.
Salisbury, Harrison E.
Writers in the Shadow of Communism.
(reprinted in The Naked God 186-94).
in: NY Times Magazine p.10- Jun 9'57.
[Fast's correspondence with Boris Polevoi on his resignation from Party].
[Seidman S2]
| For nearly forty years the list of creative artists attracted by the Communist dream, then repelled by the Soviet reality has steadily lengthened. The list is a hall of fame - Silone, Gide, Malraux, Sartre, Spender, Koestler, Wright, Dos Passos. The newest name is that of the American novelist Howard Fast, who last winter broke with the Communist movement after fifteen years of dedication and belief... |
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| 1957.
anon.
Desertion Under Fire.
in: The Literary Gazette, Moscow, Aug 24'57 (quoted in Deming Brown: Soviet Attitudes p.292).
[Russian response to Fast's leaving the Communist Party].
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| 1957.
Agronsky, Martin (host).
Look Here. Howard Fast.
director, Dick Feldman; producer, Robert D. Graff.
television program, Oct.13, 1957.
produced as a special project by the NBC Television Network; NBC Television presents.
copy: NBC TV Collection (Library of Congress) DLC.
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1957.
Howe, Irving.
A Captive Not Quite Freed.
in: The New Republic, Dec.16'57, p.18.
[Review of The Naked God].
| The first though not least important thing to be said about The Naked God is that simply as a piece of writing it is extremely shabby: incoherent in structure, florid in diction, inflated and hysterical in tone. Since books of this kind are generally treated as "documents," they seldom meet with such criticism; but I am enough of a literary man to believe that Fast's ineptitude is a significant fact in estimating the political meaning and value of his book... |
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1958.
Meyer, Hershel D.
History and Conscience, the Case of Howard Fast.
63 pp,
20 cm,
12mo pamphlet, (about Fast's resignation from the Communist Party and media attention to his statements of disaffection: This writer claims the CPUSA promoted Fast's books and helped him become a best-selling writer. Fast writes in his autobiography that he was already a best-selling author when hejoined the Communist Party).
Anvil-Atlas Publishers.
New York.
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[Seidman M258]
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1959.
Meisler, Stanley.
The Lost Dreams of Howard Fast.
in: The Nation, 188(498-500) May 30'59.
(2,540 words).
| For many years Howard Fast the Communist obscured our view of Howard Fast the writer. Flaunting contempt at Congress, issuing tracts against "bourgeois, decadent" authors, rallying sympathy for the Soviet Union, he stood between us and his books and kept us from a special insight into the intellect of an American Communist. Fast, who has left the party, may have represented, in some ways, the essence of America's own brand of communism. The clues to understanding him as a Communist lie in understanding him as a writer... |
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| 1963.
Eisinger, Chester.
Fiction of the Forties.
392 pp,
23 cm,
1st,
pp 90-93 of Chapter Four: Fiction and the Liberal Reassessment. (an uncomplimentary analysis of Fast's writing as an example of 'Communist writing').
University of Chicago Press.
Chicago.
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| 1964.
Newquist, Roy.
Interview with Howard Fast.
in: Counterpoint.
653 pp,
24 cm,
'Sixty-three interviews with authors and columnists and publishers'.
Rand McNally.
Chicago.
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| 1970.
Jardine, Gil.
An Interview with Howard Fast.
interviewed by Gil Jardine, Jan. 1970.
1 reel (33 min.) : 7 1/2 ips, mono.,
Discussion of Fast's experiences during the McCarthy era.
Pacifica Radio Archive, ARCHIVE #E2BB3973.
Los Angeles.
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| 1971.
Campenni, Frank.
Citizen Howard Fast: A Critical Biography.
580 pp,
Ph.D. thesis (UMI Dissertation Services, 300 N. Zeeb Rd., Ann Arbor MI 1-800-521-0600, 313-761-4700).
University of Wisconsin.
Madison.
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| 1973.
Campenni, Frank & Stanley Mallach.
Howard Fast: Oral history interview.
[Transcripts of an oral history interview conducted on March 13-14, 1973, by Frank Campenni and Stanley Mallach with Howard Fast. Fast discusses his involvement with the United States Communist Party,primarily during the 1940s and 1950s, his participation in various Party activities, and his relationship with prominent Communist Party Members, such as Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Eugene Dennis, and William Z. Foster.].
UWM Manuscript Collection 55, University Manuscript Collections, Golda Meir Library, U. of Wisconsin.
Milwaukee, WI.
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1973.
[Kunitz, Howard].
Author Interview: Howard Fast.
in: The Library, Vol. 1, No. 1, Premier Issue, p. 1, October 1973.
92 pp,
23.7 cm,
Howard Kunitz, Publisher.
Manchester, Maine.
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| Howard Fast enjoys a most unusual situation as a famous author although he modestly asserts that he is not alone in this situation. Mr. Fast is not only widely read by a diverse audience, but is genuinely scholarly in his approach toward writing, achieving a rare kind of popular quality... |
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| 1975.
anon.
Fast, Howard.
in: Something About the Author, 7:80-82.
Gale Research.
Detroit, Mich.
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| 1977.
Fast, Howard with Hugh Down.
[Howard Fast talks about his craft].
sound recording,
1 sound tape reel: 7.5 ips, mono. 7 in. 1/4 in. tape. (Fast appears on Over Easy with Hugh Down, broadcast on NET, November 23, 1977. Fast talks about his craft and the trilogy on immigration to California on which he is currently working. He also talks about the spirit of Louis Untermeyer).
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| 1977.
Mitford, Jessica.
A Fine Old Conflict.
333 pp,
22 cm,
p xiii, p 4 (a couple of uncomplimentary paragraphs).
Alfred A. Knopf.
New York.
ISBN: 0-394-49995-6.
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| 1978.
Patan, Federico.
Calas menores.
149 pp,
17 cm,
1st,
includes: El Paine de Howard Fast.
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
Mexico City.
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| 1980.
Campenni, Frank.
Cunningham, E.V.
in: Twentieth-century crime and mystery writers. John M. Reilly, editor. (& 2nd ed. 1985).
xxiv, 1568 pp,
25 cm,
(includes a 'resumé' chronology of Fast's life).
St. Martin's Press.
New York.
ISBN: 0-312-82417-3.
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| 1980.
anon.
Fast, Howard, author.
in: Who's Who in America, 41st Edition, 1980-81, p.1049.
biographical article.
Marquis Who's Who.
Chicago.
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1980.
Smilgris, Martha.
Howard Fast's Many Sides: A Born-Again Yankee, Blacklisted Best-Seller.
in: People, 13(119) Apr 7'80.
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| Most people survive; Howard Fast endures. In the past 50 years he has written nearly 60 books, and though many have sold well, like Freedom Road and Citizen Tom Paine, the critics were usually cruel. In 1950 Fast, an admitted Communist, was jailed for three months for refusing to disclose the names of Spanish relief fund contributors to the House Un-American Activities Committee. For eight years he was blacklisted: No American publisher would even read his manuscripts, he says... |
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| 1981.
anon.
Fast, Howard Melvin.
in: Who's Who in America, 1980-1981.
Macmillan.
Bloomington, Ind.
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| 1981.
anon.
Howard Fast.
in: Contemporary Authors, p.185-186. New Revision Series.
Gale Research.
Detroit, Mich.
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| 1981.
Manousos, Anthony.
Howard Fast.
in: Dictionary of Literary Biography, 9:277-281.
Gale Research.
Detroit, Mich.
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1981.
Sinkler, Rebecca.
Fast's Life is a Saga Too.
in: Philadelphia Inquirer, Features, Arts & Leisure, p. H18, Sunday, October 11, 1981.
[after publication of "The Legacy"].
| The audience that came out to hear him speak one cold, rainy night last week was more interested in Howard Fast's legacy than Howard Fast's The Legacy. The latter is a novel - the latest installment of Fast's saga about the Lavette family; the former is the memory of the royal nose-thumbing that Fast once gave the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) during the McCarthy era. Fast had come to the Jewish Y at Broad and Pine Streets to read stories and talk about his long, happy career as one of America's best-read writers... |
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1981.
Rozhon, Tracie.
Life in the Howard Fast Lane is Doom & Gloom.
in: Philadelphia Daily News, Features, p. 25, Monday, October 19, 1981.
[interview on the publication of "The Legacy"].
GREENWICH, Conn. - Howard Fast is one of those delightfully confusing people whose manner seems utterly simple, calm and straightforward, but whose words leave you wondering, days later, if you even scratched the surface. Weeks later, you decide you didn't.
Maybe it's the same with his books - notably his series about a group of immigrants and their descendants. It's easy to dismiss the writing in these four novels as pulpy, the story as soap opera. But like Fast's own words, the story tends to stay with you because Fast is a terrific storyteller... |
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1981.
McDowell, Edwin.
Behind the Bestsellers.
in: N.Y.Times Book Review, 86(50) Nov 22'81.
| Howard Fast and Bette, his wife of 44 years, moved back to Connecticut from California last year because - as he puts it - "my wife wanted to and because I'm very fond of her." He still misses California, though, and it is easy to understand why. It is the setting for his hugely successful multi-volume saga of the Lavette family, the fourth volume of which, "The Legacy," is No. 5 on this week's fiction best-seller list... |
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| 1982.
Macdonald, Andrew and Gina Macdonald.
Fast, Howard (Melvin).
in: Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers, 219-223.
Gale Research.
Detroit, Mich.
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| 1982.
Petrov, Anatolii.
'Ekh Govard!': Istoriia odnogo neotpravlenogo pis-ma.
in: Znamia: Literaturno Khudozhestvennyi i Obshchestvenno Politicheskii Zhurnal, 163-186. August 8, 1992.
Moscow.
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| 1983.
Tuska, John & Vicki Piekarski, editors-in-chief.
Encyclopedia of frontier and western fiction.
edited by Jon Tuska.
365 pp,
bibl, ports. Howard Fast: p.90.
McGraw-Hill.
New York.
ISBN: 0-07-065587-1.
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| 1983.
anon.
Howard Fast.
in: Contemporary Literary Criticism, 23:153-161.
Gale Research.
Detroit, Mich.
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| 1984.
Murolo, Priscilla.
History in the Fast Lane.
in: Radical History Review, no. 31 [1984], p. 23;.
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| 1984.
Fast, Jonathan.
Son of a writer.
in: The New York Times Magazine, (July 29 '84) p. 50, il.
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| 1986.
Campenni, Frank.
Fast, Howard (Melvin).
in: Contemporary Novelists, p.291-294.
St. James Press.
London.
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| 1987.
Mitgang, Herbert.
[FBI's surveillance of writers].
sound recording,
1 sound tape reel (5 min.): 3 3/4 ips, mono. 7 in., 1/4 in. tape (Herbert Mitgang finds that the FBI's surveillance of writers (as subversives) included Hemingway, Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Steinbeck, E.B. White, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Henry Moore, and others)(with the voices of J. Edgar Hoover, William F. Buckley, Howard Fast, Tennessee Williams, and reporters Bruce Morton and Dan Rather).
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| 1987.
Fast, Howard with Ron Powers.
[Turning Citizen Tom Paine into a play].
sound recording,
1 sound tape reel (10 min.): 3 3/4 ips, mono. 7 in., 1/4 in. tape. (Fast talks about turning his novel, Citizen Tom Paine into a play with Richard Thomas playing the title role. Broadcast on CBS-TV (Sunday Morning), March 21, 1987).
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| 1987.
Sharma, K.N.
Spartacus: Variations on a Theme.
in: R.C.Prasad and A.K.Sharma (eds.) Modern Studies and Other Essays in Honour of Dr. R.K.Shiha, p.261.
Vikas Publishing House.
New Delhi.
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| 1987.
Tescott, Jacqueline.
Interview with Howard Fast.
in: Washington Post, Mar.3'87, D:1.
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| 1987.
anon.
Howard Fast.
in: Manhattan, Jun-Aug 1987, pp 61-64.
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| 1988.
Macdonald, Gina.
E.V. Cunningham.
in: Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction, 437-444.
Salem Press.
Pasadena, CA.
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| 1988.
Burton, Pamela and Natalie Roberts.
The First Mash Unit.
produced by Pamela Burton, introduced by Natalie Robbins.
1 reel (30 min.) : 7 1/2 ips., mono.,
HF speaks about the first MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) started in Toulouse, and the time hespent in jail because of his affiliation with the Communist Party.
Pacifica Radio Archive, ARCHIVE #E2SZ0754.01. RECORDED: UCLA, 21 May 1988, BROADCAST: KPFK, 5/15/88.
Los Angeles.
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| 1989.
Buckley, Jr., William F.
Mr. Fast Explains.
in: National Review (February 24, 1989), pp. 62-63.
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| 1989.
Kondracke, Morton.
Uncle Sam is the Heavy.
in: The New York Times, April 20, 1989, Sunday, Late Edition - Book Review Desk.
(review of "The Confession of Joe Cullen").
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| 1990.
Wald, Alan.
Fast, Howard (b. 1914).
in: Encyclopedia of the American Left, ed. Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, and Dan Georgakas (New York: Garland, 1990), pp. 219-220.
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| 1991.
Moritz, Charles Fredric, ed.
Current biography yearbook, 1991.
6711 pp,
bibl, ports. Howard Fast: p 206-210.
H.W. Wilson.
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| 1991.
anon.
Fast, Howard (Melvin).
in: Current Biography, p.206-210.
H.W. Wilson.
Bronx, NY.
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1991.
Gross, Ken.
Howard Fast.
photographs by Michael A. Smith.
in: People Weekly, Jan.28'91 (v.35) p.75-79.
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| Howard Fast is rich. Not filthy rich, like the plutocrats he has denounced in such left-leaning novels as Freedom Road and Spartacus. He just has a portfolio of a million or two. "Government bonds," he says defiantly. "Not a penny in unearned wealth. Just the sweat of my own labor and some Treasury notes."... |
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| 1991.
Sheehan, Henry.
The Fall and Rise of Spartacus.
in: Film Comment, Mar'91 p.57-63.
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| 1991.
anon.
Fast, Howard (Melvin).
in: Current Biography, v. 52 (Apr. '91) p. 17-22, bibl, por.
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| 1993.
Cornish, Sam.
To Howard Fast (poem).
Another Jewish boy afraid--of myself facing America in the 50s....
in: Folks Like Me.
Zoland Books.
ISBN: 0-944072-30-5.
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| 1993.
anon.
Editors' note.
in: New York Times, Nov 19, 1993, A, 2:5.
An article in the Nov 18, 1993 edition that described architect Charles Gwathmey's relationship withhis father, the artist Robert Gwathmey, failed to research a statement made by the younger man thathe and his father met up with the writer Howard Fast in the 1950s after Fast "named some names" tothe House Committee on Un-American Activities. In fact, Fast spent three months in prison in 1950 for refusing to cooperate with the committee.
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1994.
Traister, Daniel.
Being Read: The Career of Howard Fast.
(An Exhibition Drawn From The Howard Fast Collection, March 23 -July 1, 1994. Kamin Gallery, Van Pel-Dietrich Library, University of Pennsylvania).
24 pp,
21.5 cm,
pbk,
ill.
University of Pennsylvania Libraries.
Philadelphia.
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| 1994.
anon.
Fast, Howard Melvin.
in: Who's Who in America, 1995.
Reed Reference Publishing Co.
New Providence, NJ.
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| 1994.
anon.
Howard Fast.
in: Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Vol. 18, p.167-186.
Gale Research.
Detroit, Mich.
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| 1994.
anon.
Howard Fast.
in: International Who's Who.
Europa Publication.
London.
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| 1994.
Karp, Abraham J., editor.
The Jews in America: a treasury of art and literature.
(includes article on Howard Fast).
Hugh Lauter Levin Assocs.
CT.
ISBN: 0-88363-894-0.
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| 1995.
Traister, Daniel.
Noticing Howard Fast.
in: Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies. 20(525-541).
Cambridge University Press.
Cambridge.
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| 1995.
Pensiero, Nicole.
At Age 81, Howard Fast is Writing His Best Stuff.
in: Philadelphia Inquirer, Local, South Jersey section, p. S01, Monday, December 4, 1995.
[Fast speaks on the occasion of the publication of "The Bridge Builder's Story].
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| 1996.
Seed, David.
Howard Fast and the Shape of the Political Memoir.
11 pp,
29.7 cm,
ms,
paper presented at the 1996 NASA Conference, June 5-7, 1996 "Writing Lives: American Biography and Autobiography, Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, the Netherlands (announced as "The Crisis of Autobiography in Howard Fast").
University of Liverpool (to be published with conference papers, 1997).
Liverpool.
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1996.
Macdonald, Andrew [1942-].
Howard Fast: a critical companion.
201 pp,
24 cm,
1st,
Critical companions to popular contemporary writers, 1074-4193. bibl. references, index.
Greenwood Press.
Westport, Conn.
ISBN: 0313294933.
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| 1996.
Seed, David.
The Ex-Communist Memoirs of Howard Fast and His Contemporaries.
24 pp,
29.7 cm,
ms,
University of Liverpool (unpublished).
Liverpool.
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| 1997.
McDaniel, Maude.
Old-fashioned values sparkle in Fast's latest.
in: Let'sGo / Online Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 29, 1997.
[online review of "An Independent Woman"].
http://www.jsonline.com/news/sunday/books/0629bk.fas.stm.
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| 2003.
Gavron, Daniel.
A fast friend.
obituary.
in: Haaretz, Friday, March 15,(?) 2003.
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2012.
Sorin, Gerald.
Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane.
24 cm,
Indiana University Press.
Bloomington.
ISBN: 978-0-253-00727-8.
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| Gerald Sorin’s biography of the Jewish-leftist writer Howard Fast (1914-2003) examines Fast’s life through the lens of his political identity. Famous—or infamous—for his membership from 1943 to 1957 in the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), Fast was often more popular in the Soviet Union than in America, although sales of his books and literary rights made him a multimillionaire by the time he died. Sorin traces his life from scrappy New York tenement kid working all hours to put food on his widowed father’s table, to wealthy Hollywood and Old Greenwich literary lion, hobnobbing with the literati... (from a review by Bettina Berch) |
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