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Dalton Trumbo

Born

in Montrose, CO, The United States

December 09, 1905

Died

September 10, 1976

Genre

Fiction

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Dalton Trumbo worked as a cub reporter for the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, covering courts, the high school, the mortuary and civic organizations. He attended the University of Colorado for two years working as a reporter for the Boulder Daily Camera and contributing to the campus humor magazine, the yearbook and the campus newspaper. He got his start working for Vogue magazine. His first published novel, Eclipse, was about a town and its people, written in the social realist style, and drew on his years in Grand Junction. He started writing for movies in 1937; by the 1940s, he was one of Hollywood's highest paid writers for work on such films as Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), and Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945), and Kitty Foyle ( ...more

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Average rating: 4.21 · 48,990 ratings · 3,936 reviews · 32 distinct works • Similar authors

	Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, Ron Kovic (Introduction) 4.21 avg rating — 48,643 ratings — published 1939 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Night of the Aurochs by Dalton Trumbo, Robert Kirsch (Editor), Cleo Trumbo (Foreword by) 3.84 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1979 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eclipse 3.85 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1935 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Time of the Toad: A Study of Inquisition in America & Two Related Pamphlets 4.02 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1949 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Additional Dialogue: Letters of Dalton Trumbo, 1942-1962 by Dalton Trumbo, Helen Manfull 4.48 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1970 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spartacus: Screenplay really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Biggest Thief in Town 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1949 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Remarkable Andrew 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1941 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Washington Jitters 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1936 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Devil in the Book it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice.”
― Dalton Trumbo

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“did anybody ever come back from the dead any single one of the millions who got killed did any one of them ever come back and say by god i'm glad i'm dead because death is always better than dishonor? did they say i'm glad i died to make the world safe for democracy? did they say i like death better than losing liberty? did any of them ever say it's good to think i got my guts blown out for the honor of my country? did any of them ever say look at me i'm dead but i died for decency and that's better than being alive? did any of them ever say here i am i've been rotting for two years in a foreign grave but it's wonderful to die for your native land? did any of them say hurray i died for womanhood and i'm happy see how i sing even though my mouth is choked with worms?”
― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

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“Of course a lot of guys were ashamed. Somebody said let's go out and fight for liberty and so they went out and got killed without ever once thinking of liberty. And what kind of liberty were they fighting for anyway? How much liberty and whose kind of liberty? Were they fighting for the liberty of eating free ice cream cones all their lives or for the liberty of robbing anybody they pleased whenever they wanted to or what? You tell a man he can't rob and you take away some of his liberty. You've got to. What the hell does liberty mean anyhow? It's a word like house or table or any other word. Only it's a special kind of word. A guy says house and he can point to a house to prove it. But a guy says come on let's fight for liberty and he can't show you liberty. He can't prove the thing he's talking about so how in the hell can he be telling you to fight for it? No sir anybody who went out and got into the front line trenches to fight for liberty was a goddamn fool and the guy who got him there was a liar.”
― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

tags: liberty, war

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October 2015 New School Classics Group Read

1934, Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers, 209 pages

26 votes, 19.3%

1982, Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally, 429 pages

24 votes, 17.8%

1981, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 647 pages

16 votes, 11.9%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages

9 votes, 6.7%

1997, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, 340 pages

9 votes, 6.7%

1914, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, 329 pages

9 votes, 6.7%

1958, Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene, 220 pages

8 votes, 5.9%

1997, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, 432 pages

7 votes, 5.2%

1971, Maurice by E.M. Forster, 256 pages

6 votes, 4.4%

1939, Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, 243 pages

5 votes, 3.7%

1997, Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, 449 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1976, Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley, 729 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1972, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, 165 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1957, The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino, 217 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1943, The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 530 pages

2 votes, 1.5%

1963, Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar, 564 pages

1 vote, 0.7%

1905, The Petty Demon by Fyodor Sologub, 352 pages

1 vote, 0.7%

1997, Out by Natsuo Kirino, 400 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

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