Books by Albert Maltz

About

Albert Maltz (1908-85) was an American playwright, fiction writer and screenwriter. He won the O. Henry Award twice. His novel The Cross and the Arrow about the German resistance to the Nazi Regime was distributed to 150,000 American soldiers during WWII. He worked on a series of films including Casablanca, until he was blacklisted during the mccarthyism era. He is best remembered today for his novels A Tale of One January and A Long Day in a Short Life.