He left his bakery job to become editor of the Hollywood Spectator. In 1934 Trumbo's fortunes began to change rapidly. I attended the University of Southern California for almost two years.repossessed motorcycles, reviewed pictures for a motion picture trade magazine, and did various other jobs, all the time remaining at the bakery. During this time I wrote eighty-eight short stories and six novels, all rejected. I started this work in 1925 at a salary of $4.00 a week, and when I quit, nine and one-half years later, I was earning $18.00.

I went to work as a night bread wrapper in the largest bakery in Los Angeles. I attended the University of Colorado in the year of 1924-1925, joining them on the coast in the summer of 1925. Some correspondence is present only in dictated form.Īfter my graduation from high school my mother and father completed the westward trek which the family had begun two hundred years before, and moved to Los Angeles. Harburg, John Huston, Gordon Kahn, Garson Kanin, Murray Kempton, Ring Lardner Jr., John Howard Lawson, Carey McWilliams, Albert Maltz, David Merrick, Dore Schary, Herman Shumlin, and Sam Zimbalist. Among his correspondents are Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, E.Y. Numerous letters relate to the Congressional hearings, his work as a black market writer under assumed names during the 1950s, and his attitudes toward blacklisting. Correspondence, 1925-1962, includes letters to his wife and family concerning his experiences as a correspondent during World War II, his prison experiences in 19, as well as many letters to and from agents, playwrights, producers, and other members of the Ten. It includes correspondence, writings, financial records, recordings, and subject files on HUAC and the Hollywood Ten.

The collection offers remarkably complete documentation of his work and the blacklisting to which he was subjected until 1960. Papers of Dalton Trumbo, an author and writer of motion picture scripts who, as one of the Hollywood Ten, was imprisoned following 1947 hearings before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

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