A blacklisted member of the 'Hollywood Ten,' Ring Lardner Jr. spent time in federal prison for refusing to answer when the House Un-American Activities Committee asked if he was a member of the Communist Party. Pictured here in a Bureau of Prisons mug shot, Lardner had ceased using a pseudonym by the time he wrote the screenplay for M*A*S*H in 1970.
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