After Williams College, he drove an ambulance in Italy during World War I. John Howard Lawson, the screen writer and one of the “Hollywood Ten” who was blacklisted by the motion‐picture industry and jailed for refusing in 1947 to tell a … Adventurer John Lawson booked passage for the New World and sailed from Cowes, England on May 1, 1700. John Howard Lawson’s father, Simeon Levy, was the son of Jewish immigrants who arrived in the United States in the 1840s from Poland, driven by an outburst of anti-Semitism. An acquaintance who had been to America assured Lawson "that Carolina was the best country I could go to," and the young traveler was eager to see Britain's colony in the New World. John Howard Lawson. John Howard Lawson (1894 – 1977) Born in New York City to a wealthy family, Lawson (ne Levy) wrote his first play ( A Hindoo Love Drama ) at age 16 as an undergraduate at Williams College. OK Theory and Technique of Playwriting, Paperback – January 1, 1960 by Lawson, John Howard, (Author) 5.0 out of 5 stars 4 ratings. John Howard Lawson was blacklisted in Hollywood along with many others who were 'named'. A celebrated playwright, on the basis of one play, Lawson came to the Communist Party fairly late in the game, in 1934, five years after a Stock Market Crash that sent so many into the Communist Party. Please try your request again later. John Howard Lawson (1894–1977), too, came from New York money. He moved to Mexico where he continued to write. One of the books he finished writing before he left for prison was "The Hidden Heritage" which I am proud to say I now have an autographed first edition. Later he simultaneous wrote agitprop Broadway plays and Hollywood scripts. Previous page. John Howard Lawson, screenwriter; presses his face close to the microphone as he lashes out at the House Un-American Activities Committee in Washington, Oct. 27, 1947, during a tumultuous exchange which ended in his citation for contempt of Congress. Genealogy profile for John Howard Lawson. GEDCOM Source @R250715129@ U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Yates Publishing Ancestry.com Operations Inc 1,7836::0 Language. John Howard Lawson + Follow Similar authors to follow + + + See more recommendations Something went wrong. He is survived by his wife; his son, John Howard Lawson (age 67) (Rebecca DeVenanzio); his daughter, Paula Jean LeShane (age 63) (Stephen LeShane); and his son, Jay Peter Lawson (age 59) (Claudia N. Lawson). After a harried ocean voyage lasting nearly three months, Lawson's ship put in at New York Harbor. John Howard Lawson, screenwriter, activist and head of the Hollywood branch of the American Communist Party, he was all of the above. The family settled in Springfield, Massachusetts, where Levy was born in 1852. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13580811/john-howard-lawson