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Alfred Hayes (18 April 1911 – 14 August 1985) was an American screenwriter, television writer, novelist, and poet, who worked in Italy as well as the United States.
May 26, 2020 · 'The End of Me,' the last and best of Alfred Hayes' reissued midcentury novels, features a man reborn and proves there's life after screenwriting.
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Alfred Hayes (18 April 1911 – 14 August 1985) was a British screenwriter, television writer, novelist, and poet, who worked in Italy and the United States. He is perhaps best known for his poem "Joe Hill" ("I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night…"), later set to music by Earl Robinson.
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British screenwriter, novelist, and poet Alfred Hayes was born in London in 1911. He earned a BA at the City College of New York, CUNY, and served in the US Army Special Services during World War II. After the war, he began a long career as a screenwriter, first in Rome and then in Hollywood.
Alfred Hayes has 36 books on Goodreads with 17075 ratings. Alfred Hayes’s most popular book is Boris Godunov.
Mar 25, 2021 · Over a period of some fifty-odd years Alfred Hayes worked as a reporter, a screenwriter, a novelist, and a poet. When he died in 1985 he left behind seven novels, three volumes of poetry, a collection of short stories, and at least a dozen screenplays.
Jun 15, 2020 · Hayes was a poet, novelist and screenwriter, whose name largely fell from view in the years after his death in 1985. But with the reissue of three of his novels, his reputation has been...
