Warren Miller (author)

Warren Miller ( born August 31, 1921 in Stowe, Pennsylvania, † April 20, 1966 in New York City ) was an American writer.

Life

Miller studied at the University of Iowa and served in World War II in the U.S. Army in Europe. After the war he worked as a teacher at his old university and took there the famous Iowa Writers' Workshop in part. The late 1950s he worked as a PR agent for the advertising agency Push Pin Studios in New York, and finally the early 1960s, as literary editor of the weekly magazine The Nation.

Since the mid- 1950s, published Miller, along with some children's books and a sympathetic to Castro reportage from Cuba after the revolution, several novels. The most successful was the 1959 released The Cool World ( Cold World ) over the 14 -year-old leader of a street gang in Harlem. James Baldwin called the book " one of the best novels about Harlem that I have ever read ." On the basis of The Cool World Miller wrote with Robert Rossen an eponymous play, which was performed on 22 and 23 February 1960 at Broadway, in the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. The resulting directed by Shirley Clarke and produced by Frederick Wiseman film The Cool World ( German release title: The casual world), to the Dizzy Gillespie provided a soundtrack, premiered in 1963 at the International Film Festival in Venice. The film was included in the National Film Registry in 1994.

Were also made ​​into a film of the novel, Return to Peyton Place had worked (1961, directed by José Ferrer ), on which Miller as well-paid ghostwriter, and The Way We Live Now (1970, directed by Barry Brown).

Miller was married twice, his second wife since 1958, with Jimmy Miller (born Jane Curley ), the later author of The Big Win ( 1969). He died in 1966 from lung cancer.

Works

Novels:

  • The Sleep of Reason. Secker & Warburg, London 1956
  • The Way We Live Now. Little, Brown and Co., Boston / Toronto 1958.
  • The Cool World. Little, Brown, Boston 1959. German edition: Cold world. A gang leader from Harlem reported. Translated by Harry Rowohlt. Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim / Basel 1979. ISBN 3-407-80613-1 ( ISBN formally wrong ). Re: Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim / Basel 1986 ISBN 3-407-80812-7. . Output as Gulliver paperback # 719: Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim / Basel 1993, ISBN 3-407-78719-7. .

Novels under the pseudonym " Amanda Vail ":

  • Love Me Little. McGraw- Hill, New York 1957.
  • The Bright Young Things. Little, Brown, Boston 1958.

Novel as a ghostwriter:

  • Grace Metalious: Return to Peyton Place. J. Messner, New York 1959. German edition: Return to Peyton Place. Translated by Werner von Grunau. Kindler, Munich 1960

Children's books:

  • King Carlo of Capri. Freely angepasst from Riquet with the tuft of hair by Charles Perrault. Illustrated by Edward Sorel. Harcourt, Brace, New York 1958.
  • Pablo Paints a Picture. Illustrated by Edward Sorel. Little, Brown, Boston 1959.

Report:

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