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Alvah Bessie was an American writer, journalist, and screenwriter. He was born in New York City and attended Columbia University. He was a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, a group of American volunteers who fought in the Spanish Civil War. He wrote several books, including Men in Battle, a memoir of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, and The Un-Americans, a book about the Hollywood blacklist. He also wrote for several films, including The Pride of the Marines and The Story of G.I. Joe. He died in 1985.

Popular As Alvah Cecil Bessie
Occupation writer,actor
Age 81 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 4 June, 1904
Birthday 4 June
Birthplace New York City, New York, USA
Date of death 21 July, 1985
Died Place Terra Linda, California, USA
Nationality United States

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Who Is Alvah Bessie's Wife?

His wife is Sylviane L. Martin (16 June 1963 - 21 July 1985) ( his death) ( 3 children)

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1965

Refused to write under a pseudonym after his blacklisting, working instead as a publicist, book reviewer and lighting technician at the hungry i nightclub in North Beach, San Francisco. In 1965, he wrote a book about his experiences during the McCarthy era, entitled "Inquisition in Eden".

1954

Was a member of the U.S. Communist Party when he fought with the famous Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain during the Spanish Civil War and during his tenure as a Hollywood screenwriter. He resigned from the Party in 1954.

1945

He was a writer and actor, known for Objective, Burma! (1945), Northern Pursuit (1943) and The Very Thought of You (1944). He was married to Sylviane L. Martin.

1940

Ernest Hemingway, the most prominent of the American supporters of the Spanish Republic during the Civil War against Gen. Francisco Franco's fascist Falangists, said that Bessie's Spanish Civil War novel "Men in Battle" was one of the best war novels of its time. Hemingway's own Spanish Civil War novel, "For Whom the Bell Tolls", won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

1936

As Alvah C. Bessie, won a 1936 O. Henry Award for his short story "A Personal Issue", which appeared in Scribner's Magazine.

1935

Won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1935, publishing his first novel, "Dwell in the Wilderness", the same year. In 1936 and 1937, was drama editor for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

1904

Alvah Bessie was born on June 4, 1904 in New York City, New York, USA as Alvah Cecil Bessie.

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