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Charles Reginald Jackson (April 6, 1903 – September 21, 1968) was an American writer. He wrote the 1944 novel The Lost Weekend. Early life. Charles R. Jackson was born in Summit, New Jersey on April 6, 1903, the son of Frederick George and Sarah Williams Jackson. [2] .
Writer: The Lost Weekend. Charles Jackson was born in 1903 into a wholly dysfunctional family in Summit, New Jersey. His father skipped out on the family when he was 10 and the boy completed his elementary education in Newark, then began college at Syracuse University but abruptly quit.
- April 6, 1903
- September 21, 1968
The Lost Weekend is Charles R. Jackson's first novel, published by Farrar & Rinehart in 1944. The story of a talented but alcoholic writer was praised for its powerful realism, closely reflecting the author’s own experience of alcoholism, from which he was temporarily cured.
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Charles Reginald Jackson was an American author, widely known for his 1944 novel "The Lost Weekend". Background. He moved to Newark, New York in 1907, and nine years later his older sister, Thelma, and younger brother, Richard, were killed while riding in a car that was struck by an express train.
Feb 28, 2013 · Charles Jackson’s The Lost Weekend became Billy Wilder’s acclaimed 1945 movie—but its autobiographical strains foreshadowed a sad end for the author.
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Charles R. Jackson is best known for being the author of The Lost Weekend which he wrote in 1944. The following year the book was adapted as a movie and won four out of seven Oscars.
Jun 3, 2003 · With unflinching prose, the words of Marine Sergeant Major Charles Jackson describe the fierce yet impossible battle for Corregidor, the surrender of thousands of his comrades, the long forced marches, and the lethal reality of the P.O.W. camps.
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