Budd Schulberg (Hardcover)

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This is the first overview of Schulberg's career 1937-2000 (his own autobiography, "Moving Pictures", covers his life only to age 17). For more than six decades, Budd Wilson Schulberg has known success in virtually every category of American writing. Raised in the Hollywood of the 1920s as the privileged son of a pioneer studio mogul, Schulberg achieved fame as novelist, short story writer, playwright, Oscar-winning screenwriter and boxing historian. He also became a central figure in the entertainment industry's political turmoil of the1940s and 50s, fleeing first from the Communist Party's attempts to control his writing, then testifying as a cooperating witness before the House Committee on Un-American activities, and finally emerging as a leader of the nation's non-Communist Left. Schulberg chronicled these events in the country's leading newspapers and intellectual journals. He has also known, and written about, many other American writers and their difficulties in maintaining or recapturing early success: Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Nathanael West, William Saroyan, John Steinbeck and William Faulkner, John O'Hara, Irwin Shaw and many other distinguished novelists and playwrights who were doing studio work.

About the Author

Nicholas Beck is a retired professor of Journalism. He has taught at California State University, Los Angeles. He has also worked as a General Assignment Reporter for United Press International.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 184 pages
• Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. (September 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0810840359
• ISBN-13: 978-0810840355
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,341,989 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good biography of a great writer, February 1, 2005

By	Alan K. Hooper "Sleepless In Seattle" (Edmonds, WA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This slim volume packs an incredible amount of information, both professional and personal, into an astute and revealing study of its subject. I've waited 25 years for Budd Schulberg to release the second part of his memoirs ("Moving Pictures" was published in 1981), and so far he hasn't obliged. Since he's now 91 years of age, I hope he doesn't plan to wait much longer. Until Volume II arrives, this overview of his life and work will sustain his fans nicely. My thanks to Nicholas Beck for saying so much in those 181 pages.
Al Hooper
Edmonds, WA