John Sanford or John B. Sanford, born Julian Lawrence Shapiro (May 31, 1904 – March 5, 2003), was an American screenwriter and author who wrote 24 books. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature describes him as, “Perhaps the most outstanding neglected novelist.” A one-time member of the Communist Party, after he and his wife Marguerite Roberts refused to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee, they were blacklisted and unable to work in Hollywood for nearly a decade. Sanford wrote half of his books after he was 80. He published a 5-volume autobiography, for which he received a PEN/Faulkner Award and the Los Angeles Times Lifetime Achievement Award. He left three unpublished novels and was writing up until a month before his death at 98.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Water Wheel (1933)
The Old Man’s Place (1935)
Seventy Times Seven (1939)
The People from Heaven (1943)
A Man without Shoes (1951)
The Land That Touches Mine (1953)
Every Island Fled Away (1964)
The $300 Man (1967)
A More Goodly Country: A Personal History of America (1975)
Adirondack Stories, (1976)
Intruders in Paradise, (1997)
Adirondack Stories, (1976)
View From This Wilderness: American Literature as History, (1977)
To Feed Their Hopes: A Book of American Women (1980)
The Color of the Air (1985)
A Very Good Land to Fall With (1987)
Scenes from the life of an American Jew (1985-1991)
The winters of that country. Tales of the man made seasons (1984)
The waters of darkness, (1986)
A walk in the fire (1989)
Maggie: A Love Story (1993)
The view from Mt. Morris. A Harlem Boyhood (1994)
We have a little sister. Marguerite, the Midwest years (1995)
A book of American women (1996)
Tambour (2002)
A Palace of Silver. A memoir of Maggie Roberts (2003)
