Writing for Love And/Or Money: Outtakes from a Life on Spec: The Early Years - Brossura

Gilroy, Frank Daniel

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1575255715 ISBN 13: 9781575255712

Casa editrice: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, 2007

Riassunto

At fourteen, a boy in the Bronx, addicted to gambling (craps, horses, ball games, cards), moved by forces unknown to him, writes a one-page story that his aunt, who works on The World Telegram, asks a reporter to assess. The reporter sends it back with the notation: "The boy has narrative ability. Tell him to stay away from journalism." Twenty-six years later the reporter (Ed Wallace) interviews the "boy" when he wins a Pulitzer prize for playwriting.What happened to the "boy" in those intervening years (including World War II, Dartmouth College, Mexico, and Hollywood) is the stuff dreams, and occasional nightmares, are made of.

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Frank D. Gilroy is a playwright, novelist, television writer, screenwriter, director, and independent filmmaker. His awards include a Pulitzer Prize, a Tony Award, and Drama Critics Award for The Subject was Roses. His first play, Who’ll Save the Plowboy? won the Obie for Best American Play of the Year. His most recent play Contact with the Enemy earned a Drama Desk nomination as best new play of the year. Desperate Characters, which he adapted and directed for the screen (from the novel by Paula Fox, starring Shirley MacLaine), won two Silver Bears at the Berlin Film Festival. Several of his one-act plays have appeared in best one-act collections. Born and raised in the Bronx, he graduated from Dartmouth College (courtesy of a miracle and the GI bill) after service in World War II. He is a past president of the Dramatists Guild.

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Book by Frank D Gilroy

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• Editore: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1575255715
• ISBN 13: 9781575255712
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 198