Louis Fischer
February 29, 1896 – January 15, 1970
Place of Birth:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Place of Death:
Princeton, New Jersey
Louis Fischer (29 February 1896 – 15 January 1970) was a Jewish-American journalist. Among his works were a contribution to the ex-Communist treatise The God that Failed (1949), a Life of Mahatma Gandhi (1950), basis for the Academy Award-winning film Gandhi (1982), as well as a Life of Lenin, which won the 1965 National Book Award in History and Biography.