Allan Chase (writer)
Allan Chase (19 April 1913 – 22 June 1993) was an American writer, editor and journalist.
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Biography
Allan Chase was born at the borough of Manhattan in New York City. He was a noted supporter of the Communist faction during the Spanish Civil War,[lower-alpha 1] alongside such people as Sherwood Anderson, Freda Kirchwey, Vincent Sheean, Elliot Paul and Raymond Gram Swing. Secretary of the American Committee for Spanish Freedom, he ran for Congress in New York on the Communist Party ticket in 1936.
He was INS correspondent and editor of several publications, including Quick and Friday. In 1944 he published the crime novel The Five Arrows, described by the The New York Times as "like South Chicago gangsters in a comic strip... a de-animated Dick Tracy South of the Border." A second novel, Shadow of a Hero appeared five years later. At the end of December 1949, Paul Jarrico signed a contract with Proser-Nasser Productions to adapt the book into a film.[2] The project remained unrealized. Later Chase was script editor for Bernard J. Prockter's office and worked on such programms as The Big Story.[3]
Works
- Falange: The Axis Secret Army in the Americas (1943)[4]
- The Five Arrows (1944)
- Shadow of a Hero (1949)[5]
- The Biological Imperatives: Health, Politics, and Human Survival (1971)
- The Legacy of Malthus: The Social Costs of the New Scientific Racism (1977)
- Magic Shots: A Human and Scientific Account of the Long and Continuing Struggle to Eradicate Infectious Disease by Vaccination (1982)
- The Truth About STD (1983)
Selected publications
- "The Amsterdam News Is Winning," The Nation, Vol. CXLI, No. 3671 (1935)
- "Story Behind Spain's Next President," Coronet, Vol. XVI (1944)
- "Is Something Rotten in Denmark?," MorE, Vol. VII, No. 7/8 (1977)
Notes
Footnotes
- ↑ In 1946, the New Leader magazine stated: "Leafing through a few issues of the Independent, ICCASP organ, reveals articles by Allan Chase, defender of Stalinism in Spain, Anton Refregier, former teacher at Communist art schools, and Martin Popper of the Lawyers' Guild.[1] Chase was described in an official report of the House Un-American Activities Committee as "a well-known communist" and "a former Communist Party political candidate."
Citations
- ↑ The New Leader, Vol. XXIX, No. 4 (1946), p. 5.
- ↑ Ceplair, Larry (2007). "The Interregnum, 1948–50." In: The Marxist and the Movies: A Biography of Paul Jarrico. University Press of Kentucky, pp. 101–16.
- ↑ Hartnett, Vincent (1953). "They've Moved in On TV," The American Legion Magazine, Vol. LIV, No. 1, p. 26.
- ↑ Naft, Stephen (1943). "Ideological Termites," The Saturday Review, Vol. XXVI, No. 35, pp. 11–12.
- ↑ Siler, Ruth (1949). "A Novel About Bosses," The New Leader, Vol. XXXII, No. 22, p. 13.
References
- Junco, Alfonso (1943). "Ferreting Out Falangists: Wild-Goose Chase in Mexico," America, Vol. LXX, No. 11, pp. 290–92.
External links
- Works by Allan Chase at Unz.com
- Works by Allan Chase at Internet Archive
