Abstract: The collection consists of materials of a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) English professor's research on Howard Fast, a prolific communist author. The significant areas of the collection focus on Howard Fast's political involvement with the Communist Party (1943-1956) and the anti-fascist movement (1945-1950). The collection contains photocopies of correspondence, copies of literary manuscripts (typescripts), newspaper clippings, oral history interviews, poems, political flyers and pamphlets, and a subpoena to appear before the United States Senate. Included is correspondence with Bette Fast, Steve Nelson, Albert Maltz, Morton Sobell, and various literary publishers.