John sanford author biography

American screenwriter and prose writer

John Sanford or John B. Sanford, born Julian Lawrence Shapiro (May 31, &#; March 6, ),^[1] was an American screenwriter and prose writer who wrote 24 books. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature describes him as, "Perhaps the most outstanding neglected novelist."^[2] A one-time member of the Communist Party, after he and his wife Marguerite Roberts refused to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee, they were blacklisted and unable to work in Hollywood for nearly a decade.

Sanford wrote half of his books after he was He published a 5-volume autobiography, for which he received a PEN/Faulkner Award and the Los Angeles Times Lifetime Achievement Award. He left three unpublished novels and was writing up until a month before his death at

Biography

Julian Shapiro was born in Harlem, New York to a first-generation American mother and Russian immigrant father, John Sandford (born February 23, 1944), American journalist ...

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