Abel Meeropol

Abel Meeropol ( pen name Lewis Allan, born February 19, 1903 in New York City; † October 30, 1986 in Longmeadow, Massachusetts) was an American songwriter and author.

Meeropol visited until 1921, Dewitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, where he twenty-seven years long taught English literature. He also worked as a writer for theater, film, radio and television and politically active in the Kommunisatischen party. Under the impression of photos of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in 1937, he wrote the song Strange Fruits, for which he also composed the melody. The anti-racist song became famous in the interpretation of Billie Holiday and was introduced in 1978 into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Were also famous the song The House I Live In, the 1945 Frank Sinatra sang in the movie of same name and Apples, Peaches and Cherries, which he wrote for Peggy Lee. In the field of classical music, he worked primarily with the composer Robert Kurka and Elie victory masters together and wrote, among other things the librettos for the opera The Good Soldier Schweik, Darling Corie, Malady of Love and The Soldier and the text of the cantata The Town Crier. He and his wife adopted in 1953, the two sons of executed Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.