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Charles R. Jackson was born in Summit, New Jersey on April 6, 1903, the son of Frederick George and Sarah Williams Jackson. [2] His family 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.
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- Novelist, radio and television writer
- American
- The Lost Weekend
Charles R. Jackson. 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. It served as the basis for the classic 1945 Oscar winning film ...
- Charles R. Jackson
- 244 pp
- 1944
- 1944
Hollywood went wild over Charles Jackson and his 1944 best-seller, The Lost Weekend.Jackson reciprocated, thrilled that the celebrated Billy Wilder wanted to direct his dark, autobiographical ...
At the height of his career, Charles R. Jackson lectured at various colleges. In the mid-1950s he began struggling with finances and moved with his family to Connecticut. Jackson's second published novel of the 1940s, titled "The Fall of Valor", was released in 1946 and takes its name from a passage in Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick".
Charles R. Jackson is the author of The Lost Weekend (4.09 avg rating, 2109 ratings, 246 reviews, published 1944), The Fall of Valor (3.79 avg rating, 12...
Charles Jackson, Charles R. Jackson. Don Birnam is a sensitive, charming and well-read man. Yet when left alone for a few days by his brother, he struggles with his overwhelming desire for alcohol, succumbs to it and, in the resulting prolonged agony, goes over much of his life up to and including the lost weekend. 244 pages, Paperback.
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