Dan James

DAN JAMES and his wife LILITH JAMES wrote the book for Bloomer Girl in 1944 before spending the next two decades as volunteers in the barrios of East L.A.  Before that, Dan James was a co-director of Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator. Both he and his wife Lilith were called to testify during the HUAC hearings, and refused to self-incriminate under their Fifth Amendment rights. During the 1950s Dan James continued to work under the name Daniel Hyatt and eventually gained notice under the pseudonym Danny Santiago, after the publication of The Somebody in Redbook in 1970. He published the novel Famous All Over Town in 1983.