Dalton TrumboDalton Trumbo was an American screenwriter and a novelist. He was born in Montrose, Colorado on December 9, 1905. He won two Academy Awards as a front writer. He graduated from Grand Junction High School. However, he started working while in school as cub reporter for the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. While in college he started working as reporter for the Boulder Daily Camera and also contributed the year book and campus humor magazine.
He published his first novel 'Eclipse' written in social realist style. After it he started to write as screen writer and written for the movies including 'Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)', 'Kitty Foyle (1940), 'Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945) etc. From these movies, Kitty Foyle was nominated for an American Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay. As an Academy awards, he won an Oscar for 'The Bravo One', which was written under the name Robert Rich. In 1993, he was awarded with the Academy Award for writing 'Roman Holiday'. He was one of the ten writers who were jailed in 1947 for refusing to provide information to House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). On September 2, 2009 an article under title 'Dalton Trumbo is an American Master' was published by the Huffington Post.
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