![]() His first popular work was Citizen Tom Paine, a fictional account of the life of Thomas Paine. While hitchhiking and riding railroads around the country to find odd jobs, he wrote his first novel, Two Valleys, published in 1933 when he was 18. Howard credited his early voracious reading to a part-time job in the New York Public Library.įast began writing at an early age. ![]() When his mother died in 1923 and his father became unemployed, Howard's youngest brother, Julius, went to live with relatives, while he and his older brother, Jerome, sold newspapers. His mother, Ida (née Miller), was a British Jewish immigrant, and his father, Barney Fast, was a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant who shortened his name from Fastovsky upon arrival in America. Cunningham and Walter Ericson.įast was born in New York City. Howard Melvin Fast (Novem– March 12, 2003) was an American novelist and television writer. ![]() The Last Frontier, Spartacus, April Morningīette Cohen (1937–1994 her death 2 children) ![]()
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