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Albert Maltz was an American playwright, fiction writer and screenwriter. He was one of the Hollywood Ten who were jailed in 1950 for their 1947 refusal to testify before Congress about their involvement with the Communist Party USA. Throughout his life, he wrote several plays, novels, screenplays, and short story collections. Twice, he won the O. Henry Award: in 1938 for "The Happiest Man on Earth," a short story published in Harper's Magazine, and in 1941, for "Afternoon in the Jungle," published in The New Yorker. He passed in 1985.
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Listing 4 stories.
An impoverished thirteen-year-old boy growing up during the Great Depression gets into a serious fight with an older man over a fifty-cent coin.
A driver in West Virginia suddenly encounters an older man standing in the middle of the road and agrees to take him to his destination. Though the driver judges the man for his weary appearance, the older man reveals to the driver his life's regrets.
On a close-knit street, two women commit suicide a week apart from each other. When an ambulance arrives, the adults with a hushed-silence, and the kids joke about dead bodies to torment a local woman.
A two-week walk across state lines lands one man a dangerous job during the Great Depression.