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Calder Baynard Willingham Jr. (December 23, 1922 – February 19, 1995) was an American novelist and screenwriter. Before the age of 30, after three novels and a collection of short stories, The New Yorker was describing Willingham as having “fathered modern black comedy ,” [2] his signature a dry, straight-faced humor, made funnier by its ...
Sep 1, 2005 · Calder Willingham was an accomplished novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who created some of the most memorable characters in the American cinematic and literary canons. Characterized by raw sexual overtones, several of Willingham’s novels are set in the South, with Georgia providing the backdrop for two of his novels, Eternal Fire and ...
Feb 21, 1995 · Calder Willingham, the novelist and screenwriter whose first book, "End as a Man," made him a literary star at 24, died on Sunday at the Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia, N.H. He was 72...
Calder Willingham has 39 books on Goodreads with 869 ratings. Calder Willingham’s most popular book is Rambling Rose.
Calder Baynard Willingham, Jr. The novels and screenplays of Calder Baynard Willingham, Jr. earned this Rome, Georgia, writer a place of esteem and influence among American storytellers. A witty redheaded Southerner who preferred the "ribald genius" of Erskine Caldwell to the "murky, pretentious ... almost wholly unreadable" style of William ...
Writer: The Graduate. Calder Willingham was born on 23 December 1922 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He was a writer, known for The Graduate (1967), Paths of Glory (1957) and Little Big Man (1970). He died on 21 February 1995 in Laconia, New Hampshire, USA.
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Feb 19, 1995 · Calder Willingham, (born Dec. 22, 1922, Atlanta, Ga.—died Feb. 19, 1995, Laconia, N.H.) U.S. novelist and screenwriter who, was lionized at the age of 24 after the publication of the explicit End as a Man (1947), a graphic and lurid account of life at a southern military school resembling South Carolina’s Citadel, where Willingham was ...
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