Biography
Victor Jeremy Jerome was the longtime cultural commissar of the Communist Party USA and the editor of the partys cultural and theoretical magazine Political Affairs from 1937 to 1956. He was the partys leading public theorist on questions of art, film, and literature, and the author of The Negro in Hollywood Films (1950) and the autobiographical novel A Lantern for Jeremy (1952).
Indicted in the Foley Square Second String in June 1951 and convicted alongside the rest of the CPUSA national board in January 1953, he was sentenced to three years in federal prison and served at the Federal Correctional Institution at Danbury, Connecticut. After his release he resumed editing Political Affairs and remained in the party until his death in London in 1965.
