Name Morton Thompson | Role Writer | |
Died July 7, 1953, Ledyard, Connecticut, United States Books Not as a stranger, The Cry and the Covenant, Und nicht als ein Fremder Movies Not as a Stranger, My Brother Talks to Horses Similar People Edward Anhalt, Stanley Kramer, Fred Zinnemann, Frank Sinatra | ||
Morton Thompson (c. 1907 – July 7, 1953) was an American writer of newspaper journalism, novels and film screenplays. Amongst his works were a collection of journalistic memoirs called Joe, the Wounded Tennis Player, and the novels Not as a Stranger (which was turned into a film directed by Stanley Kramer) and The Cry and the Covenant. He was also the inventor of the Thompson Turkey. He was a friend of the writer Robert Benchley. His second wife, Frances Pindyck, a literary agent with the Leland Hayward Agency, represented Dashiell Hammett and Betty Smith, among others.
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