American novelist
This article is about the author. For the Basketball player, see
Gerald Green
.
Gerald Green
(April 8, 1922 ? August 29, 2006) was an American author, journalist, and television writer.
Biography
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Green was born in
Brooklyn
, New York as
Gerald Greenberg
. He was the son of a physician, Dr. Samuel Greenberg. He was Jewish.
Green attended
Columbia College
, where he edited the
Jester
, starred in several
Varsity Shows
, and was a member of the
Philolexian Society
. He graduated from the college in 1942 and,
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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 wrote many novels, the best 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
. His 1962 novel
Portofino P.T.A.
was adapted into a musical,
Something More!
, by composer
Sammy Fain
and lyricists
Marilyn
and
Alan Bergman
.
He wrote the
teleplay
for
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 script into a novel of the same title. In recognition for this effort, Green was awarded the
Dag Hammarskjold
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, becoming stepfather to Dr Janie Worth (nee Eagle), Julie Cardo (nee Eagle) and David Eagle. Green died of
pneumonia
in
Norwalk, Connecticut
on August 29, 2006.
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Books written by Gerald Green
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Novels
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- 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)
- Holocaust
(1978 by Transworld Publishers)
- The Healers
(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
0-449-21366-8
and
ISBN
978-0-449-21366-7
Plays
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- Kent State: Four-hour Teleplay (1980)
Non-fiction
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- The Stones of Zion: A Novelist's Journal in Israel (1971)
- Artists of Terezin
(1978)
References and external links
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- Gerald Green
at
IMDb
- Gerald Green, Biography, RosettaBooks.com
. Retrieved June 16, 2007
- 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 June 16, 2007
- Books Written by Gerald Green
. Retrieved June 16, 2007
- The Works of Gerald Green, FantasticFiction.co.uk
. Retrieved June 16, 2007
- 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 June 16, 2007
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