The Independent - London, March 14th, 2003
THE WRITER Howard Fast is best known as the author of Spartacus, the novel that Kirk Douglas and Stanley Kubrick turned into an epic movie in 1960. Yet, over a 70-year writing career Fast wrote more than 80 books which sold over 80 million copies around the world.
He was a Communist and in 1953 became the only American apart from Paul Robeson to receive the Stalin International Peace Prize. Three years later, he left the Communist Party when Nikita Khrushchev revealed Stalin's murderous ways.
Fast was remarkable for the way that he combined left-wing political commitment with page-turning pr...
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