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American writer (1908–1985)

Albert Maltz (; October 28, 1908 – April 26, 1985) was an American playwright, fiction writer and screenwriter. He was one of the Hollywood Ten who were jailed in 1950 for their 1947 refusal to testify before the US Congress about their involvement with the Communist Party USA.

They and many other US entertainment industry figures were subsequently blacklisted, which denied Maltz employment in the industry for many years.^[1][2]

Background

Albert Maltz was the third of three sons born to Bernard Morris Maltz, a Russian immigrant from modern-day Lithuania,^[3] and Lena Schereaschetsky (later Sherry),^[3] also an immigrant from a Russia-controlled area.^[4][5] Born into an affluent Jewish family,^[6] in Brooklyn, New York, Maltz was educated at Columbia University, where he was a member of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity and the class of 1930,^[7][8] and the Albert Maltz - Wikipedia QITIH