$2.00 in 1933
Howard Fast's
Two Valleys, was published by The Dial Press in 1933,
when he was 19, at a cover price of $2. Seventy years later, as the first published
book of a world-famous author, it could command over $500
for a copy in fine
condition. Fast said that was more than he ever received for it in royalties
*
.
$25.00 in 2000
Howard Fast's last published novel was
Greenwich (he lived in
Greenwich, Connecticut in his later years), which appeared from Harcourt in April,
2000... a literary career spanning 67 years! (The hardcover first edition had a cover
price of $25.00. Paperback copies are available online today for under $1... "last
novels" are not as collectable.)
But it is for his earlier works of historical
fiction, especially those
dealing with the
American Revolution, that he has received the
greatest acclaim. Among his best-loved novels
are:
The Last Frontier
(1941)
The Unvanquished
(1942)
Citizen Tom Paine
(1943)
Freedom Road
(1944)
My Glorious Brothers
(1948)
Spartacus
(1951)
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an eyewitness account...
Peekskill U.S.A.
(1951)
As an author-publisher, during the blacklist
The Blue Heron Press
(1952-56)
The Immigrants Series
Howard Fast was a well-known name in the 1940s, when he was a best-selling author and controversial public
figure. He is known to readers of a later generation for his best-selling Lavette family saga,
which was made into
a television mini-series, "
The Immigrants
", in 1978, directed by Alan J. Levi. The fifth volume,
The Immigrant's
Daughter, published in 1981, was "the triumphant conclusion of the Lavette Saga".
The Immigrants
1977
Second Generation
1978
The Establishment
1979
The Legacy
1981
The Immigrant's Daughter
1985
Twelve years later, in 1997, Fast wrote a further conclusion,
An Independent Woman
.
The Masao Masuto Mysteries
by
E.V. Cunningham
Howard Fast wrote
mysteries
as E.V.
Cunningham, including this series of seven
starring Masao Masuto, a nisei detective with the
Beverly Hills Police Department... devotee of
rose cultivation and Zen meditation...
The Case of the...