Howard Fast (November 11, 1914 - March 12, 2003) - a famous American writer, became known as a novelist during the Second World War. In 1944 he joined the US Communist Party, in 1950 he fell under the company of "McCarthyism," in 1951 he published the famous historical novel "Spartak," later filmed by S. Kubrick. In the USSR, until the mid-50s, Fast was perhaps the most published American author,