A Child of the Century

by Ben Hecht

Overview

First published in 1954, in this quintessential autobiography Ben Hecht recounts his childhood, education, and career as journalist, playwright, and screenwriter, describes famous political and literary acquaintances, and examines U.S. efforts to aid Jews in Nazi Germany and, after the war, in Israel.
A remarkable memoir.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787202627
Publisher:	Golden Springs Publishing
Publication date:	11/11/2016
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	612
File size:	19 MB
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About the Author

Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 - April 18, 1964) was an Academy Award winning American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist and novelist.
Born to Russian Jewish immigrants in New York City and raised in Racine, Wisconsin, Hecht moved to Chicago in 1910 at the age of 16 and became a renowned journalist, writing for several Chicago newspapers.
He went on to write thirty-five books and some of the most entertaining screenplays and plays in America. He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films. Hecht received the first Academy Award for Original Screenplay, for Underworld (1927). Many of the screenplays he worked on are now considered classics. In total, six of his movie screenplays were nominated for Academy Awards, with two winning.
Hecht became an active Zionist shortly before the Holocaust began in Germany, and wrote articles and plays about the plight of European Jews, such as, We Will Never Die in 1943 and A Flag is Born in 1946. In 1983, 19 years after his death, Ben Hecht was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

Born to Russian Jewish immigrants in New York City and raised in Racine, Wisconsin, Hecht moved to Chicago in 1910 at the age of 16 and became a renowned journalist, writing for several Chicago newspapers.
He went on to write thirty-five books and some of the most entertaining screenplays and plays in America. He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films. Hecht received the first Academy Award for Original Screenplay, for Underworld (1927). Many of the screenplays he worked on are now considered classics. In total, six of his movie screenplays were nominated for Academy Awards, with two winning.
Hecht became an active Zionist shortly before the Holocaust began in Germany, and wrote articles and plays about the plight of European Jews, such as, We Will Never Die in 1943 and A Flag is Born in 1946. In 1983, 19 years after his death, Ben Hecht was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

Editorial Reviews

His manners are not always nice, but then nice manners do not always make interesting autobiographies, and this autobiography has the merit of being intensely interesting."—Saul Bellow, New York Times
 

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