Role: Writer

Pare Lorentz, 1905-1992, Celebrated writer-director of documentary films, he employed Hurwitz on The Plow that Broke the Plains, 1936, Leo’s first serious work for hire. Lorentz moved to California after college in West Virginia, and began work as a journalist and film reviewer, after having become disillusioned with the corporate ethos, working as a writer … Continued

1909-1954 – Born Sol Fishman. Writer, poet and Leo’s oldest friend. Leo Hurwitz and he worked on the student newspaper together at New Utrecht High School. Their correspondence covers some key periods in Leo’s career. A Communist and child of Communists, Rolf fought in Spain during the Spanish Civil War and then was drafted into … Continued