{{short description|American dramatist}}
'''Carl Randau''' (8 August 1893 - April 1969) was an American playwright<ref>[http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/person/9681479/carl-randau-profile-and-genealogy Ancient Faces website]</ref><ref name="Hammett">Dashiell Hammett, ''Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett'', Counterpoint,U.S., 2002, p. 268 [https://books.google.com/books?id=IxrtoE0ByisC&dq=%22leane+zugsmith%22&pg=PA268]</ref> and journalist.
==Biography== A native of Iowa,<ref name="Sigma">Society of Sigma Xi, ''A Magazine of Sigma Chi'', v. 61, no. 3, 1942 [https://books.google.com/books?id=vUnPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Carl+Randau%22]</ref> he moved to New York City in the 1930s where he was a journalist for the ''New York World-Telegram''.<ref name="Ravitz">Abe C. Ravitz, ''Leane Zugsmith: Thunder on the Left'', Intl Pub, 1992, p. 102 [https://books.google.com/books?id=AkjFoBENQDwC&dq=%22Carl+Randau%22&pg=PA102]</ref>
He was the President of The Newspaper Guild from 1934 to 1940.<ref name="Ravitz"/><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=0Y5OLBzAsE0C&dq=%22Carl+Randau%22&pg=PA251 Benjamin Stolberg, ''The story of the CIO'', Arno, 1971, p. 251]</ref> In 1940, he married Leane Zugsmith.<ref name="Hammett"/><ref>Stanley Kunitz, Howard Haycraft, ''Twentieth Century Authors'', New York City: H. W. Wilson Company, 1966, p. 1574 [https://books.google.com/books?id=-9n0m7SIJagC&q=%22Carl+Randau%22]</ref> After the Second World War, he and his wife visited Japan and China to work as correspondents for the newspaper ''PM''.<ref name="Sigma"/><ref>Paulist Fathers, ''New Catholic World'', v. 155, 1942, p. 207 [https://books.google.com/books?id=t_gPAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Carl+Randau%22]</ref>
==Bibliography== *''The Setting Sun of Japan'' (1942) (with Leane Zugsmith) *''The Visitor'' (1944) (with Leane Zugsmith)
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