Richard Edward Wormser ( born Richard Edward Wormser , pseudonym - Ed Friend ; February 2, 1908, New York - July 1977) is an American writer of pulp fiction, detective fiction, movie scripts and westerns . Some are written by him under the pseudonym Ed Friend. During his career, he wrote about 300 stories, 200 stories, 12 books, many screenplays and stories adapted to the script, as well as the cookbook Southwest American Cooking or Home on the Range.
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Literary work
After graduating from Princeton University , under his own name and under the pseudonym Conrad Jerson wrote a lot of pulp fiction and published 17 novels about Nick Carter for Street & Smith . [four]
Wormser’s first novel in the genre of detective fiction was Waxed Man in 1934 . And his first Western novel was The Lonely Quarter of 1951 . [five]
Hollywood has acquired several of his stories, starting with It's All in the Racket, a film adaptation in 1936 called Sworn Enemy. In 1937, Columbia Pictures signed a short-term contract with him. [6] He worked on it, then Columbia hired him again, and Wormser also worked at several other studios. Columbia was not able to decide between the purchase of two of his stories - “The Frame Up” or “Right Guy”. The studio later decided on “Right Guy,” but the film was titled “The Frame Up.”
During World War II, he served as a forest ranger.
Wormser is a literary prize winner for the American Western authors of the Spur Award (1964) for the teenage science fiction "Ride a Northbound Horse", in 1971 for the book for The Black Mustanger [7] and the Edgar Allan Poe Prize for the best paperback book (The Intruder, 1973).
It was first published in Russian in the USSR in 1966 (the novel " Pan Satirus ").
Novelties
Wormser is the author of several film innovations :
- 1961 : Thief of Baghdad
- 1962 : “ The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah ”
- 1963 : " McLintock! "
- 1964 : Bedtime Story
- 1965 : Operation Crossbow
- 1965: Major Dundee
- 1966 : Alvarez Kelly
- 1966: Torn Curtain
- 1968 : The Scalphunters
and four novels based on television series (3 of which are under the pseudonym Ed Frend):
- 1967 : The Green Hornet : The Infernal Light Adaptation (Dell)
- 1969 : “ The High Chaparral ”: “ Coyote Gold ”, original (Tempo)
- 1970 : “ The Most Deadly Game ”: “ The Corpse in the Castle ”, original (Lancer)
and one under his real name:
- 1966: The Wild Wild West Adaptation (Signet)
Notes
- ↑ Internet Speculative Fiction Database - 1995.
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ p. 139 Wild Cat Books The Pulp Hero Deluxe Edition 2008 Lulu
- ↑ Sadler, Geoff, Salder, James, Sonnichsen, Charles Leland, Bold, Christine Twentieth Century Western Writers 1991 St. James press edition 2
- ↑ http://issuu.com/boxoffice/docs/boxoffice_041037/32
- ↑ Awards History Archived on March 22, 2007. Spur Award
Links
- Page about the writer on bibliograph.ru (Retrieved October 14, 2011)
- Richard Wormser on the Internet Movie Database
- Magazine Publications