Larry Ceplair is the author of Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical, The Marxist and the Movies: A Biography of Paul Jarrico, and Anti-Communism in Twentieth-Century America: A Critical History.
" Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical provides nearly
everything you'd ever want to know about Trumbo as a person and
screenwriter, as well as biting analysis on his time leading up to
his arrest and imprisonment by HUAC, and how he shattered it." --
Journeys in Classic Film
"[A] good and surprising biography... Ceplair soars." -- The
American Spectator
"[F]or those of us with obsessive curiosity about mid-20th century
Hollywood [...] this isa great read." -- Noir City
"Ceplair and Trumbo's book is an exhaustive and precisely
documented study of the work -- cinematic, literary and political
-- of the screenwriter and Hollywood Ten member. It is an
outstanding treatment of Trumbo's political struggle and of the
obstacles he faced." -- Brian Neve, University of Bath
"Dalton Trumbo is a compellingly odd footnote in the tangled
history of politics and show business in America." -- Wall Street
Journal
"Rarely does a biography so exquisitely balance an artist, his
work, and his life as Larry Ceplair's Dalton Trumbo. I thought I
knew Trumbo, but this book opened my eyes to the atmosphere of the
Hollywood he worked in, the intricacies of the blacklist and the
responses to it, and the richness and sometimes contradictory
nature of a very complicated man. Ceplair's book had me as hooked
as Trumbo's own movies." -- Allison Anders, director and writer of
Gas Food Lodging
"Similar to Hollywood, Dalton Trumbo was more than one dimensional
and reflects the complexity of American radicalism." -- History
News Network
"The three of us, Jane Fonda, Dalton, and I, had walked out of the
living room and were standing on his back porch, sort of hearing
the garden noises, once in a while glancing at the stars that were
tiny pinpoints of light in the warm black night. Jane and I were
expounding passionately about the revolution to come when Dalton
stopped us, and in our silence he very carefully said: 'Don't
forget to be happy.' His voice has echoed in my mind for forty plus
years. How many memories, how much disappointment, how much
rejection and loss, how many regrets were held hostage in that
phrase. I loved him truly in that moment and I so love him still."
-- Donald Sutherland
"This book can't help being continually fascinating because of its
subject matter and his epic skill for armed literary combat." --
Film Comment
"This is a splendid book, a major accomplishment in the field of
American film history and the history of the Left within popular
culture. Ceplair and Trumbo examine a major victim of the Hollywood
blacklist, with a depth and insight, not to mention exhaustive
research, that is unprecedented in biography or autobiography." --
Paul Buhle, coauthor of Radical Hollywood: The Untold Story behind
America's Favorite Movies
"Trumbo charts the rise, descent, and apotheosis of one of
Hollywood's most prolific -- and devious -- scenarists." -- City
Journal
"Trumbo's literary skill and immeasurable wit and faithful idealism
are highlighted throughout this penetrating biography. [... ] [A]n
essential biography and a great book that reflects the time and
history in which it is set." -- Red Dirt Report
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