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Donn Pearce (September 28, 1928 – July 25, 2017) was an American author and journalist best known for the novel and screenplay Cool Hand Luke. Early life [ edit ] Born Donald Mills Pearce in a suburb of Philadelphia , Pearce left home at 15.
- Fiction, Non-fiction
- Writer, Journalist
- Cool Hand Luke, Pier Head Jump, Dying in the Sun, Nobody Comes Back
- 1965–2011
Donn Pearce. Writer: Cool Hand Luke. It's been said that if Donn Pearce is remembered at all, it won't be for having written "Cool Hand Luke," his acclaimed but little-read novel about his life as a convict on a southern chain gang, but for the classic movie based on it. Starring Paul Newman in the Oscar-nominated title role, Cool Hand Luke (1967) was both a critical and commercial success. An...
- September 28, 1928
- July 25, 2017
Lucas Jackson and Donn Pearce's Wild Life . The classic film is based on the 1965 novel Cool Hand Luke by Donn Pearce, who spent some time in prison himself. The determined, wild, and all-in main ...
Feb 27, 2005 · Donn Pearce was born in 1928 in Croydon, Penn., and grew up during the Depression. His intelligence was recognized — he was the valedictorian of his grammar school in New York — and, after his ...
Cool Hand Luke (novel) Cool Hand Luke. (novel) Cool Hand Luke is a novel by Donn Pearce published in 1965. It was adapted into the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke . The story is told in a first-person narrative from the perspective of a convict in a central Florida prison. He works on a chain gang maintaining the berms of highways.
Jan 5, 2021 · The Untold Truth Of Cool Hand Luke. In 1967, TV director Stuart Rosenberg teamed up with writers Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson to tell the story of Lucas Jackson, a man condemned to a sweaty ...
Dec 31, 2020 · Donn Pearce was a seaman who got involved with counterfeiting American money during his days in the Merchant Marine in France. He was sent to prison on being caught, and then, during a task assigned to him beyond the prison premises, he escaped and entered the States, where he eventually resorted to burglary.
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