The human kind

Joseph Alexander Bernstein (December 4, 1917 – December 6, 1999) was a Jewish author and screenwriter, best known for his 1963 novel The Lowlife. He was the son of Russian Jewish immigrants and adopted the penname, Alexander Baron. He was raised in the Hackney area of East London, attending Hackney Downs School; and during the 1930s he was a Communist Party activist in London – fighting Fascism in the streets of Whitechapel. He became disillusioned after the Hitler–Stalin Pact, leaving the Communists to become assistant editor of Tribune.<br /> He served in the Pioneer Corps of the British Army during World War II , experiencing fierce fighting in Italy and Normandy and used his wartime exp…