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Phillip Bonosky
Phillip Bonosky (March 7, 1916 – March 2, 2013) was an American novelist, journalist, and labor activist. A lifelong Communist, he wrote the Bildungsroman, coming-of-age novel ''Burning Valley'' and worked as cultural editor and Moscow correspondent for the ''People's World, Daily World.'' Bonosky was one of the first U.S. journalists to visit communist China and one of the few to interview Vietnamese revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh. Background Bonosky was born in 1916 in Duquesne, Pennsylvania, the fourth of eight children, to Lithuanian people, Lithuanian immigrant parents. Early career As an adolescent he worked in the Duquesne Steel Works, but lost his job in the Great Depression and left home to find work. Norman Markowitz writes, "Bonosky joined large numbers of unemployed youth to ride the rails in the early 1930s, and eventually found himself in Washington, DC, living in a warehouse for transients that the early Roosevelt administration had provided." Social acti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillip Bonosky
Phillip Bonosky (March 7, 1916 – March 2, 2013) was an American novelist, journalist, and labor activist. A lifelong Communist, he wrote the Bildungsroman, coming-of-age novel ''Burning Valley'' and worked as cultural editor and Moscow correspondent for the ''People's World, Daily World.'' Bonosky was one of the first U.S. journalists to visit communist China and one of the few to interview Vietnamese revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh. Background Bonosky was born in 1916 in Duquesne, Pennsylvania, the fourth of eight children, to Lithuanian people, Lithuanian immigrant parents. Early career As an adolescent he worked in the Duquesne Steel Works, but lost his job in the Great Depression and left home to find work. Norman Markowitz writes, "Bonosky joined large numbers of unemployed youth to ride the rails in the early 1930s, and eventually found himself in Washington, DC, living in a warehouse for transients that the early Roosevelt administration had provided." Social acti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
