Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
John Howard Lawson

Born: September 25, 1894
Died: August 11, 1977 (aged 82)
Bio: John Howard Lawson was an American writer. He was for several years head of the Hollywood division of the Communist Party USA. He was also the organization's cultural manager and answered directly to V.J.
Known for:
- Algiers (1938)
- Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
- Sahara (1943)
- Blockade (1938)
- Bachelor Apartment (1931)