Trumbo
Americannoun
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Marcel Proust wrote in bed; Dalton Trumbo in a bath; Agatha Christie only needed “a steady table and a typewriter.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
On the night of the election, I was with a veteran activist who told me a story about Dalton Trumbo, the blacklisted writer.
From Salon • Jan. 8, 2025
"Previous observations from the Hubble Space Telescope show evidence for ocean-derived salt in Tara Regio," explained Trumbo.
From Science Daily • Sep. 22, 2023
Her last major role was in “Johnny Got His Gun,” a 1971 antiwar film based on a book by Trumbo, the once-ostracized screenwriter.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2022
William Trumbo, kin of John Martin’s wife who was Lucy Trumbo, made a remark to a man by the name of Price.
From Blue Ridge Country by Caldwell, Erskine
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