Lawson, John Howard (1895–1977)
| US playwright. He was a socially conscious dramatist. His early work was expressionist (Roger Bloomer 1923), while his later plays were more directly proletarian (Success Story 1932, Marching Song 1937). |
| A member of the Communist Party, he was one of the more prominent victims of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s. |
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