Howard Fast (1914-2003), novelist

Howard Melvin Fast (1914-2003) was an American Jewish novelist. Born in New York, NY on 11 November 1911, from a family of Jewish immigrants from Great Britain and Ukraine. A writer and journalist, Fast was blacklisted for his membership in the American Communist party. In the 1950s he broke with the Party, denouncing the lack of freedom in Communist countries in Eastern Europe. His novels, such as Spartacus (1951) and April Morning (1961), celebrate the struggle of humankind for freedom, justice and equality. Died in Greenwich, CT on 12 March 2003.

Works

Novels

• My Glorious Brothers (1948 Fast), novel
  • Mina ärorika bröder (1951 Fast), novel (Swedish ed.)
  • Mis gloriosos hermanos (1954 Fast / Calés), novel (Spanish ed.)
  • Gloriosii mei frati (1967 Fast / Litman-Litani), novel (Romanian ed.)
  • Moi proslavlennye brat’ia (1975 Fast), novel (Russian ed.)

• Spartacus (1951 Fast), novel

• Moses, Prince of Egypt (1958 Fast), novel

• Agrippa's Daughter (1964 Fast), novel
  • Agrippa's Dochter (???? Fast), novel (Dutch ed.)
  • La hija de Agrippa (1965 Fast), novel (Spanish ed.)
  • Berenikah ha-Hashmonait (1966 Fast), novel (Hebrew ed.)
  • Akurippa uital (1988 Fast), novel (Korean ed.)
  • Doch' Agrippy (2001 Fast), novel (Russian ed.)

Biography

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