Gerald Green (author)

Gerald Green (author)

Gerald Green (April 8, 1922 — August 29, 2006) was an American author, journalist, producer and director.

Biography

Green was born in Brooklyn, New York as Gerald Greenberg. He is the son of a physician, Dr. Samuel Greenberg.

Green attended Columbia College, where he edited the "Jester" and starred in several Varsity Shows. He graduated from the college in 1942 and, after serving in the US Army in Europe during the Second World War, where he was also the editor of the army's "Stars and Stripes" newspaper, he returned to New York to attend the Columbia Journalism School.

Green has written many novels, the most well-known being "The Last Angry Man", published in 1956. It was adapted into a movie by the same name which was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Paul Muni) and Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White. His other novels include "His Majesty O'Keefe" (co-authored with Lawrence Klingman), adapted into a 1954 film, "North West", "Portofino PTA", "To Brooklyn With Love", "My Son the Jock", "The Lotus Eaters" and "East and West".

He wrote the screenplay for "The Holocaust", a critically acclaimed 1978 TV miniseries that won eight Emmy Awards, including one for "Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series," and was credited with persuading the West German government to repeal the statute of limitations on Nazi war crimes. He later adapted the screenplay into a novel of the same title. In recognition for this effort, Green was awarded the Dag Hammarskjöld International Peace Prize for literature, 1979. Green won another Emmy nomination for his 1985 TV script for "Wallenberg: A Hero's Story". Green was also a writer, producer, and director for NBC News. In 1952, he co-created (with Dave Garroway) NBC's "The Today Show". Green lived in Stamford, Connecticut for twenty years and moved to New Canaan, Connecticut. His first wife, Marie, died of cancer. They had three children: Nancy, Ted and David. He married Marlene Eagle in 1979. Green died of pneumonia in Norwalk, Connecticut on August 29, 2006.

Books written by Gerald Green

Novels

* His Majesty O'Keefe (1950) (with Lawrence Klingman)
* The Sword and the Sun (1953)
* The Last Angry Man (1956)
* The Lotus Eaters (1959)
* The Heartless Light (1962)
* The Portofino P.T.A (1962)
* The Legion of Noble Christians: Or, the Sweeney Survey (1966)
* To Brooklyn with Love (1967)
* Faking It: Or, the Wrong Hungarian (1971)
* Block Buster (1972)
* Tourist (1973)
* My Son the Jock (1975)
* Hostage Heart (1976)
* An American Prophet (1977)
* Prophet of the Wild (1977)
* Artists of Terezin (1978)
*Holocaust (1978 by Transworld Publishers)
*Healers (1979)
*The Healing (1979)
*Girl (1979)
*The Chains (1980)
*Murfy's Men (1982)
*Karpov's Brain (1983)
*Not in Vain (1984)
*East and West (1986 and 1987 by Fawcett Publishing) - ISBN 0449213668 and ISBN 978-0449213667

Collections

*Cactus Pie (1979)

Plays

*Kent State: Four-hour Teleplay (1980)

Non fiction

*The Observer's Book of Aircraft. (1959)
*The Stones of Zion: A Novelist's Journal in Israel (1971)

References and external links

* [http://www.rosettabooks.com/pages/author_9.html Gerald Green, Biography, RosettaBooks.com] , retrieved on: June 16, 2007
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* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0449213668 Stoppel, Ellen Kaye Stoppel. Editorial Review: East and West by Gerald Green, Library Journal, Drake University Law Library, Des Moines, Reed Business Information, Inc., 1986, and Amazon.com] , retrieved on: June 16, 2007
* [http://www.amazon.com/s?search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Gerald%20Green Books Written by Gerald Green] , retrieved on: June 16, 2007
* [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/gerald-green/ The Works of Gerald Green, FantasticFiction.co.uk] , retrieved on: June 16, 2007
* [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000COU5S6 Reader's Digest Condensed Books, A Place to Hide; Nightshade; East and West; a Time for Heroes (Abridged/Hardcover) by Evelyn Anthony (author); Gloria Murphy (author); Gerald Green (author), Will Bryant (author), Volume 2, 1987] , retrieved on: June 16, 2007


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