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- Defunción11 de agosto de 1977 · San Francisco, California, Estados Unidos (Parkinson's disease)
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- Jack
- John Howard Lawson nació el 25 de septiembre de 1894 en Nueva York, Nueva York, EE.UU.. Fue un escritor, conocido por Blockade (1938), The Ship from Shanghai (1930) y El vampiro del mar (1930). Estuvo casado con Kate Drain Lawson y Susan Edmond. Murió el 11 de agosto de 1977 en San Francisco, California, Estados Unidos.
- CónyugesKate Drain Lawson (first wife)Susan Edmond
- (1950s) Blacklisted by film studios after he was accused of being a Communist. He was one of the "Hollywood Ten".
- (1933-1934) President of the Screen Writers Guild.
- His papers are at the University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, deposited in the Morris Library's Special Collections Research Center.
- Once the communist domination of the League of American Writers had been publicly declared, by Francis Biddle adding it to the Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations, its Hollywood branch renamed itself as the Hollywood Writers' Mobilization, led by Lawson.
- Lawson also wrote Counter-Attack (1945), a tribute to the Soviet-USA alliance during the late stages of the Second World War.
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