LC control no. | n 50035709 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Chambers, Whittaker |
Birth date | 1901 |
Death date | 1961 |
Found in | His Bambi, 1928. Wikipedia, Nov. 30, 2021 (Whittaker Chambers (born Jay Vivian Chambers; April 1, 1901-July 9, 1961) was an American writer-editor, who, after early years as a Communist Party member (1925) and Soviet spy (1932-1938), defected from the Soviet underground (1938), worked for Time magazine (1939-1948), and then testified about the Ware group in what became the Hiss case for perjury (1949-1950), often referred to as the trial of the century, all described in his 1952 memoir Witness. In 1928, Chambers translated Bambi, a Life in the Woods, by Felix Salten, into English.) |