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Michael Wilson was an Academy Award winning American screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios during the era of McCarthyism for being a communist. Wilson was born and raised Roman Catholic in McAlester, Oklahoma. He graduated from UC Berkeley in 1936. He taught English and began his writing career with short stories for magazines. Then, starting in 1941, he wrote or...  MORE

Michael Wilson was an Academy Award winning American screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios during the era of McCarthyism for being a communist. Wilson was born and raised Roman Catholic in McAlester, Oklahoma. He graduated from UC Berkeley in 1936. He taught English and began his writing career with short stories for magazines. Then, starting in 1941, he wrote or co-wrote twenty-two screenplays, several of which are legendary and considered some of the finest in the history of film. LESS