Carl Randau (8 August 1893 - April 1969) was an American playwright[1][2] and journalist.

Biography edit

A native of Iowa,[3] he moved to New York City in the 1930s where he was a journalist for the New York World-Telegram.[4]

He was the President of The Newspaper Guild from 1934 to 1940.[4][5] In 1940, he married Leane Zugsmith.[2][6] After the Second World War, he and his wife visited Japan and China to work as correspondents for the newspaper PM.[3][7]

Bibliography edit

  • The Setting Sun of Japan (1942) (with Leane Zugsmith)
  • The Visitor (1944) (with Leane Zugsmith)

References edit

  1. ^ Ancient Faces website
  2. ^ a b Dashiell Hammett, Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, Counterpoint,U.S., 2002, p. 268 [1]
  3. ^ a b Society of Sigma Xi, A Magazine of Sigma Chi, v. 61, no. 3, 1942 [2]
  4. ^ a b Abe C. Ravitz, Leane Zugsmith: Thunder on the Left, Intl Pub, 1992, p. 102 [3]
  5. ^ Benjamin Stolberg, The story of the CIO, Arno, 1971, p. 251
  6. ^ Stanley Kunitz, Howard Haycraft, Twentieth Century Authors, New York City: H. W. Wilson Company, 1966, p. 1574 [4]
  7. ^ Paulist Fathers, New Catholic World, v. 155, 1942, p. 207 [5]