John Sanford
Screenwriter, Author
1904 – 2003
Who was John Sanford?
John Sanford or John B. Sanford, born Julian Lawrence Shapiro, was an American screenwriter and author who wrote 24 books. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature describes him as, "Perhaps the most outstanding neglected novelist." 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 80. 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 He left three unpublished novels and was writing up until a month before his death at 98.
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- Born
- May 31, 1904
Harlem - Also known as
- John B. Sanford
- Julian Lawrence Shapiro
- Spouses
- Marguerite Roberts
(1938 - 1989/02/17)
- Marguerite Roberts
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Lafayette College
- Fordham University School of Law
- Died
- Mar 5, 2003
Montecito
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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