Albert Maltz
John B. Sherry
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Emerging from an affluent Jewish household in Brooklyn, he attended Columbia University-joining Zeta Beta Tau and graduating in 1930-before honing his craft at the Yale School of Drama; by 1935 he had adopted communist ideals, later reflecting on Marxist theory as a guiding moral vision. His early professional life unfolded in the 1930s with the Theater Union, where his play Merry Go Round was tur…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources