James William Drought

Drought was born in Aurora, Illinois, and grew up near Chicago. From 1952 to 1954 he served in the U.S. Army in the 82nd Airborne Division as a paratrooper stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. In 1960, he moved to Norwalk, Connecticut, with his family, where he was a magazine editor in New York City, New York.

One of his books was adapted into the movie The Gypsy Moths (1969) starring Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr and Gene Hackman. A complete collection of his works is preserved at the Mugar Memorial Library in the Special Collections Department at Boston University.

He died on June 2, 1983, in Norwalk Hospital.^[1]

• Boxed in by the Rich, A Parody (1950)
• The Wedding, A Play for Voices (1953)
• The Gypsy Moths, A Fable (1955)
• Memories of A Humble Man, An Irony (1957)
• Mover, A Modern Tragedy (1959)
• ii A Duo, A Story By Two Men (1961)
• The Secret, An Oratorio of Protest (1962)
• The Enemy, A Personal Reminiscence (1964)
• Drugoth, Biography of a Private Person (1965)
• ALIVEMOVIEBOOK, An Adaptation (1967)
• The Master, A Chronicle (1970)
• Sonny Davis Televised, A Comedy (1972)
• Blessed Bob Bunyan, An Inquiry (1974)
• The Book of Names, A Novel-Verite (1976)
• Superstar for President, A Satire (1978)
• Writer in Exile, A Mystery (1980)
• So Long Chicago, A Novel of Improvisational Comedy (1982)
• Queen of Spades, (unpublished) (1983)