Ben Hecht — A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago, Fantazius Mallare, & Erik Dorn

by Ben Hecht

Overview

This edition includes three complete books:
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
Fantazius Mallare
Erik Dorn

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012900289
Publisher:	Omnibus Select
Publication date:	06/25/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

"BEN HECHT (1894 – 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, and novelist. Called "the Shakespeare of Hollywood", he received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some 70 films and as a prolific storyteller, authored 35 books and created some of the most entertaining screenplays or plays in America. According to film historian Richard Corliss, he was "the" Hollywood screenwriter, someone who "personified Hollywood itself." The Dictionary of Literary Biography - American Screenwriters, calls him "one of the most successful screenwriters in the history of motion pictures."" --Wikipedia