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Abraham Polonsky
Person

Abraham Polonsky

Specialty
Writing
Birth
December 5, 1910 · 88 years
Death
October 26, 1999
Origin
New York, New York, U.S.

Technical Alias

Abraham Lincoln PolonskyAbraham L. PolonskyAbraham PolanskiDunn BarrieJohn O. Killens

Professional Trajectory

Abraham Lincoln Polonsky (December 5, 1910 - October 26, 1999) was an American film director, Academy-Award-nominated screenwriter, essayist, and novelist blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios in the 1950s, in the midst of the McCarthy era. Description above from the Wikipedia article Abraham Polonsky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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