6/7/2023 0 Comments Johnny got his gun book review![]() ![]() Doctorow’s works of fiction include Homer & Langley, The March, Billy Bathgate, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, City of God, Welcome to Hard Times, Loon Lake, World’s Fair, The Waterworks, and All the Time in the World. ![]() In 2015 the acclaimed film “Trumbo,” starring Bryan Cranston, spurred renewed interest in the author’s life and works.Į. The idea for the novel came to Trumbo after he learned of a British soldier who was seriously injured during World War I. Johnny Got His Gun, the most highly acclaimed work of Trumbo’s extraordinary career, won a National Book award (then known as an American Book Sellers Award) in 1939. Blacklisted from the film industry and charged with contempt of Congress, he served an eleven-month prison sentence. One of the famous Hollywood Ten, he refused to testify about his alleged communist affiliations before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947. Dalton Trumbo (Decem– September 10, 1976) was among the most prolific and important literary figures of his time. ![]()
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