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Jeremy Larner
Jeremy Larner (born March 20, 1937) is an American author, poet, journalist, and speechwriter. He won an Oscar in 1972 for Best Original Screenplay, for writing The Candidate.
Jeremy Larner was born in New York, and grew up in Indianapolis, winning his high school tennis championship in 1954. He had some playground rep as a basketball player in Indianapolis, where he encountered Oscar Robertson and other future stars on the playground courts of that city.[citation needed]
Larner graduated from Brandeis University in 1958, where he was close to Herbert Marcuse, Irving Howe, Philip Rahv, and a fellow student named Abbie Hoffman, who later, running a small bookstore in Worcester, Massachusetts, became an early champion of Larner's first novel.
In 1959, Larner began a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship at UC Berkeley, but finding himself unsuited for academic life he left graduate school in his first year and came to New York City at 22.[citation needed] He stayed there throughout the 1960s, writing five books in that period.
In 1962, Larner was assigned by Dissent magazine to cover the teachers' strike, and spent several months going to elementary school classes in Harlem. His long account of what he discovered was widely anthologized, having come to the attention of Michael Harrington, author of The Other America: Poverty in the United States, which inspired John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy.[citation needed]
Larner's first published piece was a critique of J. D. Salinger, published in Partisan Review in 1961.[citation needed] Also in that year he journeyed south to cover the lunch-counter sit-in strikes organized at black universities, and wrote several pieces for The New Leader and Dissent.[citation needed]
In '63, Larner edited a taped collection of interviews with heroin addicts at the Henry Street Settlement in New York. The harrowing stories told in these interviews became the basis of one of the first books from tape: The Addict in the Street, which remained in print for 20 years.[citation needed] Grove Press celebrated its publication in early 1965 with a party for Larner and William S. Burroughs, where Norman Mailer challenged Larner to a fight.[citation needed]
Larner's first novel, Drive, He Said, won the Delta Prize for first novels in 1964. The prize had gone unclaimed for several years and by then had reached $10,000. The judges were Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Mary McCarthy and Leslie Fiedler.[citation needed] For the title of this novel, Larner chose a line from the poem I Know a Man by Robert Creeley.
Jeremy Larner
Jeremy Larner (born March 20, 1937) is an American author, poet, journalist, and speechwriter. He won an Oscar in 1972 for Best Original Screenplay, for writing The Candidate.
Jeremy Larner was born in New York, and grew up in Indianapolis, winning his high school tennis championship in 1954. He had some playground rep as a basketball player in Indianapolis, where he encountered Oscar Robertson and other future stars on the playground courts of that city.[citation needed]
Larner graduated from Brandeis University in 1958, where he was close to Herbert Marcuse, Irving Howe, Philip Rahv, and a fellow student named Abbie Hoffman, who later, running a small bookstore in Worcester, Massachusetts, became an early champion of Larner's first novel.
In 1959, Larner began a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship at UC Berkeley, but finding himself unsuited for academic life he left graduate school in his first year and came to New York City at 22.[citation needed] He stayed there throughout the 1960s, writing five books in that period.
In 1962, Larner was assigned by Dissent magazine to cover the teachers' strike, and spent several months going to elementary school classes in Harlem. His long account of what he discovered was widely anthologized, having come to the attention of Michael Harrington, author of The Other America: Poverty in the United States, which inspired John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy.[citation needed]
Larner's first published piece was a critique of J. D. Salinger, published in Partisan Review in 1961.[citation needed] Also in that year he journeyed south to cover the lunch-counter sit-in strikes organized at black universities, and wrote several pieces for The New Leader and Dissent.[citation needed]
In '63, Larner edited a taped collection of interviews with heroin addicts at the Henry Street Settlement in New York. The harrowing stories told in these interviews became the basis of one of the first books from tape: The Addict in the Street, which remained in print for 20 years.[citation needed] Grove Press celebrated its publication in early 1965 with a party for Larner and William S. Burroughs, where Norman Mailer challenged Larner to a fight.[citation needed]
Larner's first novel, Drive, He Said, won the Delta Prize for first novels in 1964. The prize had gone unclaimed for several years and by then had reached $10,000. The judges were Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Mary McCarthy and Leslie Fiedler.[citation needed] For the title of this novel, Larner chose a line from the poem I Know a Man by Robert Creeley.