John Howard Lawson

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John Howard Lawson was an American playwright and screenwriter. He was the first president of the Writers Guild of America, West after the Screen Writers Guild divided into two regional organizations. When the US entered World War I in 1917, Lawson was opposed to joining. His father helped him to get a position in the Norton-Harjes Volunteer Ambulance Corps. In June 1917, he left for Europe and aboard the ship met John Dos Passos, also a writer. In November, when Norton-Hayes was folded into the American Red Cross's Ambulance Service, Dos Passos and Lawson decided to become drivers; they went to Italy.