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Cook, Bruce, 1932-2003.

Trumbo : a biography of the Oscar-winning screenwriter who broke the Hollywood blacklist / Bruce Cook. - First Grand Central Media tie-in edition. - New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2015. - xii, 340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Originally published in hardcover as Dalton Trumbo by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977. "Now a major motion picture"--Cover. Illustrations refer to the motion picture Trumbo, not Trumbo's life as in the original edition. Includes index. Subtitle from cover.

The lion in winter -- Colorado -- The Davis Perfection Bakery -- Beginning as a writer -- Cleo and Johnny -- The war years -- The Ten -- The Blacklist begins -- Ten months in Kentucky -- "Engaged in selling" -- Breaking the Blacklist -- In the material world -- Heroes and villains?

9781455564972 (pbk.) 1455564974 (pbk.)


Trumbo, Dalton, 1905-1976.


United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities.


Blacklisting of authors--United States--Biography.
Motion picture authorship--California--Los Angeles--Biography.
Screenwriters--United States--Biography.
Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.
Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

PS3539.R928 / Z62 2015