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Robert Watson Claiborne, Jr. (1919–1990) was an American folk singer, labor organizer and writer. ==Overview== Robert Claiborne, grandson of John Herbert Claiborne, was a folk singer and union organizer in the 1940s and 1950s. He travelled and performed with such luminaries as Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly and others. Along with his first wife, Adrienne Claiborne, he wrote the song ''Listen Mr. Bilbo'' and several others, and hosted a folk radio show for a time. As the Claibornes started a family, they both turned to writing to support it. Robert became an editor at ''Scientific American'', only to lose his job in 1960 after the FBI visited and pointed out to the senior staff that he had been called before the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings as an ex-communist, and had refused to testify. They also pointed out that he was agitating against the then nascent Vietnam War, something often frowned upon in the early 1960s. In 1968, he signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.〔"Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" January 30, 1968 ''New York Post''〕 After losing his job, Claiborne found bread and butter work writing and editing some of the famous Time-Life series of science books. Among those he was a primary contributor to were ''The First Americans'', ''The Birth of Writing'', and ''Time''. He also wrote a column for many years for Hospital Practice magazine. And he wrote or edited sections of highly-technical textbooks like ''Cell Membranes''. In the mid-sixties, he divorced and remarried, to short story writer, novelist and political activist Sybil Claiborne. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Claiborne」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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