Howard Zinn (nonfiction)
Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010) was an American historian, playwright, and social activist.
He was a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote more than twenty books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States.
In 2007, he published a version of it for younger readers, A Young People′s History of the United States.
Zinn described himself as "something of an anarchist, something of a socialist. Maybe a democratic socialist."
He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.
He wrote a memoir, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train. A 2004 documentary film about Zinn's life and work has the same title.
Zinn died of a heart attack in 2010, aged 87.
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External links:
- Howard Zinn @ Wikipedia
- A People's History of the United States @ Wikipedia