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Carl Randau

Carl Randau

American dramatist

Carl Randau (8 August 1893 - April 1969) was an American playwright[1][2] and journalist.

Biography

A native of Iowa,[3] he moved to New York City in the 1930s where he was a journalist for the New York World-Telegram.[4]

He was the President of The Newspaper Guild from 1934 to 1940.[4][5] In 1940, he married Leane Zugsmith.[2][6] After the Second World War, he and his wife visited Japan and China to work as correspondents for the newspaper PM.[3][7]

Bibliography

  • The Setting Sun of Japan (1942) (with Leane Zugsmith)
  • The Visitor (1944) (with Leane Zugsmith)

References

  1. [1]
    Ancient Faces website
  2. [2]
    Dashiell Hammett, Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, Counterpoint,U.S., 2002, p. 268
  3. [3]
    Society of Sigma Xi, A Magazine of Sigma Chi, v. 61, no. 3, 1942
  4. [4]
    Abe C. Ravitz, Leane Zugsmith: Thunder on the Left, Intl Pub, 1992, p. 102
  5. [5]
    Benjamin Stolberg, The story of the CIO, Arno, 1971, p. 251
  6. [6]
    Stanley Kunitz, Howard Haycraft, Twentieth Century Authors, New York City: H. W. Wilson Company, 1966, p. 1574
  7. [7]
    Paulist Fathers, New Catholic World, v. 155, 1942, p. 207


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