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ACTORS

Lloyd Wolfe Bochner

Tom Bosley Happy Days

Lee J Cobb Death of a Salesman, On the Waterfront

Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz)

Sweet Smell of Success, The Defiant Ones,

Some Like It Hot,

Operation Petticoat The Boston Strangler,

Jeff Chandler (born Ira Grossel)

Kirk Douglas (born Issure Danielovitch-Demsky)

Detective Story, Young Man with a Horn, The Bad and the Beautiful, The Fury, Spartacus, Champion, The Juggler, Lust for Life, Lonely are the Brave

Michael Douglas Streets of San Francisco, Coma, Running The China Syndrome, Romancing the Stone,

The Jewel of the Nile, Wall Street Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, The War of the Roses, Black Rain

Basic Instinct, Disclosure, Falling Down, The American President, The Game, A Perfect Murder.

Robert Downey Jr. Iron Man series

Zac Efron (born Zachary David Alexander)

High School Musical

Harrrison Ford

Indiana Jones, Blade Runner, Patriot Games,

Clear and Present Danger. Presumed Innocent,

The Fugitive, Air Force One,

Peter Falk TV Columbo, Murder Inc. Pocketful of Miracles,

Castle Keep, Murder by Death, The Cheap Detective

John Garfield (born Julius Garfinkel)

Having a Wondeful Time, Body and Soul, Golden Boy

Postman Always Rings Twice, Humoresque,

Four Daughters, Gentlemen’s Agreement.

Elliott Gould (born Elliott Goldstein)

Bob and Carol, Ted and Alice, MASH, Getting Straight

Joel Grey (born Joel Katz) Cabaret

Lawrence Harvey (born Larushka Mischa Skikne)

Room at the Top, Crusaders, The Good Die Young,

I am a Camera, Four Feathers, The Silent Enemy,

3 Men in a Boat, Buttefield 8, Summer and Smoke

Jake Gyllenhaal

Leslie Howard (born Leslie Stainer)

Gone With the Wind, Hamlet, Pygmalion, Intermezzo,

The Animal Kingdom, Charley’s Aunt, Escape

Sam Jaffe- (Ben Casey)

Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky)

White Christmas, Up in Arms, On the Riviera,

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Knock on Wood

Michael Landon (born Eugene Orowitz)

TV Bononza, Little House on the Prairie

Hal Linden (born Harold Lipshitz) Barney Miller

Peter Lorre (born Laszlo Loewenstein)

The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Mr. Moto, The Patsy

Yves Montand (born Ivo Levy) Let’s Make Love

Paul Muni - (born Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund)

'Louis Pasteur', 'Fugitive from a Chain Gang'

Leonard Nimoy StarTrek

Edward G Robinson (born Emmanuel Goldenberg)

Little Caesar, The Sea Wolf, The Stranger,

Double Indemnity, Five Star Final, Cincinnati Kid, Woman in the Window, Key Largo

Adam Sandler The Waterboy, Big Daddy

Robert Michael "Rob" Schneider The Hot Chick

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, and Grown Ups.

William Shattner Star Trek

Abraham Sofaer I dream of Jeannie

Rod Steiger In the heat of the Night, On The Waterfront,

The Pawnbroker, Al Capone, The Big Knife

Ben Stiller

Starsky & Hutch, Meet the Fockers,

Night at the Museum

Lee Strassberg The Godfather Part II ...And Justice for All

Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman)

Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, TheWorld’s Greatest Lover, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Silver Streak, Stir Crazy, See No Evil, Hear No Evil

Henry Winkler The “Fonz” Happy Days

ACTRESS

Lauren Bacall (born Betty Jane Perske)

To Have and To Have Not, The Big Sleep, Dark Passage,

How to Marry a Millionaire, Key Largo

Theda Bara (born Theodosia Goodman) Silent Films

Joan Blondell (born Miss Rosebud Bluestein)

The Crowd Roars, Dames, Stage Struck, Cincinnati Kid

Stand in, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Opening Night,

Cyd Charisse (born Tulla Ellice Finklea)

Singin in the Rain, Meet Me in Las Vegas,

Silk Stockings, Brigadoon, The Band Wagon

Jaimie Lee Curtis Halloween, The Frog, Prom Night,

Trading Places, A Fish Called Wanda, True Lies

Fran Drescher The Hollywood Knights, Doctor Detroit,

This Is Spinal Tap , The Nanny

Carrie Fisher Shampoo, Star Wars Trilogy

Paulette Goddard (born Pauline Marion Levee)

The Cat and The Canary, The Women, Ghost Breakers, Hold Back The Dawn, Reap the Wild Wind, Kitty

Goldie Hawn Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Cactus Flower

Private Benjamin, Foul Play, Overboard,

Bird on a Wire, Death Becomes Her,

The First Wives Club, Shampoo

Butterflies are Free, The Sugerland Express

Judy Holiday (born Judith Tuvim)

Something for the Boys, Winged Victory,

Born Yesterday

Kiss Them for Me, Bells Are Ringing

Kate Garry Hudson

Almost Famous. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days,

Raising Helen, The Skeleton Key, You Me and Dupree, Fool's Gold, Bride Wars

Scarlett Johansson The Horse Whisperer ,

Lost in Translation

Lisa Kudrow Friends, PS I Love You

Tina Louise (born Tina Blacker) Gilligan’s Island

Julianna Luisa Margulies The Good Wife, ER

Debra Messing Will & Grace and The Starter Wife.

Gwyneth Paltrow Iron Man, A Perfect Murder

Lily Palmer (born Maria Peiser)

Bell Book and Candle, Notoious Gentlemen,

Cloak and Dagger, Beware of pity,

Body and Soul, My Girl Tisa

Sarah Jessica Parker Sex in the City

Natalie Portman (born Natalie Hershlag) Black Swan

Winona Ryder, (born Winona Laura Horowitz)

When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story,

Black Swan

Jill St John (born Jill Oppenheim)

Summer Love, Holiday for Lovers, The Lost World, Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, Come Blow Your Horn,

The Liquidator, Tony Rome

Kyra Sedgwick The Closer

Simone Signoret (born Simone Kaminker)

Room at the top, Ship of Fools, Paris Match,

Salt of the Earth, The Confession, The Crucible,

Zorba the Greek

Shelly Winters (born Shirley Schrift) A Double Life,

The Great Gatsby, A place in the Sun, A Patch of Blue, The Poseiden Adventure, Diary of Anne Frank.

Debra Winger Urban Cowboy, An Officer and a Gentleman, Cannery Row, Terms of Endearment

PLAYRIGHTS AND SCREENWRITERS

The following abbreviations are employed:

AA = Academy Award AA-N = Academy Award Nomination
BOS = Best Original Screenplay BAS = Best Adapted Screenplay BMPS = Best Original Motion Picture Story

Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg)

Annie Hall(1977 AA:BOS), Interiors (1978 AA-N: BOS), Manhattan 1979 AA-N: BOS), Broadway Danny Rose (1984 AA-N:BOS), annah and Her Sisters(1986 AA:BOS), Radio Days (1987 AA- :BOS), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989 AA-N:BOS), Midnight in Paris (2011 AA:BOS) What’s New Pussycat, Don’t Drink The Water, Play it Again Sam, Bananas, Annie Hall, Interiors, Manhattan, Zelig, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask,

Edward Anhalt, Panic in the Streets(1950 AA:BMPS), Becket(1964 AA:BAS)

George Axelrod, Bus Stop, Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961 AA-N:BAS), The Manchurian Candidate, Goodbye Charlie

Richard Baer sitcoms, including The Life of Riley, The Munsters, Leave It to Beaver, and Bewitched.

Sanford Barnett, Father Goose(1964 AA:BOS)

S.N. Behrman, Jacobowsky and the Colonel

Irving Berlin, Alexander's Ragtime Band(1938 AA-N:BMPS), Holiday Inn(1942 AA-N:BMPS)

Lajos Biro, The Last Command(1927/1928 AA-N:BMPS)

Stuart Blumberg, The Kids Are All Right(2010 AA-N:BOS)

Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker (2009 AA: BOS)

Irving Brecher, Meet Me in St. Louis(1944 AA-N:BAS), Bye, Bye, Birdie

Marshall Brickman, Annie Hall(1977 AA:BOS), Manhattan (1979 AA-N: BOS)

James L. Brooks, Terms of Endearment(1983 AA:BAS), Broadcast News (1987 AA-N:BOS), As Good as It Gets (1997 AA-N:BOS)

Mel Brooks, The Producers(1968 AA:BOS), Young Frankenstein(1974 AA-N:BAS), Blazing Saddles

Richard Brooks, Elmer Gantry(1960 AA:BAS), Blackboard Jungle(1955 AA-N:BAS), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof(1958 AA-N:BAS)

Sidney Buchman, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington(1939 AA-N:BAS), Here Comes Mr. Jordan(1941 AA:BAS), The Talk of the Town(1942 AA-N:BAS)

Arthur Caesar, Manhattan Melodrama(1934 AA:BMPS)

Paddy Chayefsky, Marty(1955 AA:BAS), Hospital(1971 AA:BOS), Network(1976 AA:BOS), The Americanization of Emily, Paint Your Wagon

Stan Chervin, Moneyball (2011 AA-N:BAS)

Jerome Chodorov, My Sister Eileen, Louisiana Purchase Lisa Cholodenko, The Kids Are All Right(2010 AA-N:BOS)

Ethan Coen, Fargo(1996 AA:BOS), No Country for Old Men(2007 AA:BAS), True Grit(2010 AA-N:BAS)

Joel Coen, Fargo(1996 AA:BOS), No Country for Old Men(2007 AA:BAS), True Grit(2010 AA-N:BAS)

Alfred Cohn, The Jazz Singer(1927/28 AA-N:BAS)

Norman Corwin, Radio and Television Scriptwriter and Film Screenwriter: The Story of Ruth, Lust for Life (1956 AA-N:BAS)

Larry David, Head Writer: Seinfeld (1993 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a TV Comedy Series)

Paul Dehn, Seven Days to Noon(1951 AA:BMPS)Helen Deutsch, Vally of the Dolls, Lili, I'll Cry Tomorrow, National Velvet

I. A. L. Diamond, The Apartment(1960 AA:BOS)

Harlan Ellison, TV scripts for: Star Trek (including The City on the Edge of Forever) and The Outer Limits (including Demon With a Glass Hand)

Henry and Phoebe Ephron, Carousel, Captain Newman, M.D.(1963 AA-N:BAS)

Nora Ephron, Silkwood(1983 AA-N:BOS), When Harry Met Sally(1989 AA-N:BOS), Sleepless in Seattle(1993 AA-N:BOS)

Julius Epstein, Four Daughters(1938 AA-N:BAS), Casablanca(1943 AA:BAS), Reuben, Reuben (1983 AA-N:BAS)

Philip Epstein, Casablanca(1943 AA:BAS)

Carl Foreman, High Noon(1952 AA-N:BAS), The Bridge on the River Kwai(1957 AA:BAS), The Guns of Navarone(1961 AA-N:BAS)

Melvin Frank, Road to Utopia(1946 AA-N:BOS), Knock on Wood(1954 AA-N:BOS), The Facts of Life(1960 AA-N:BOS), A Touch of Class(1973 AA-N:BOS)

George Froeschel, Mrs. Miniver(1942 AA:BAS)

Daniel Fuchs, Love Me or Leave Me(1955 AA:BMPS)

Jules Furthman, Mutiny on the Bounty(1935 AA-N:BAS)

Lowell Ganz, Splash(1984 AA-N:BOS), City Slickers

Larry Gelbart, Oh, God!(1977 AA-N:BAS), Tootsie, (1982 AA-N: BOS)

Benjamin Glazer, Seventh Heaven(1927/1928 AA:BAS),Arise, My Love(1940 AA:BMPS)

Bo Goldman, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest(1975 AA:BAS), Melvin and Howard(1980 AA:BOS)

James Goldman, The Lion in Winter(1968 AA:BAS)

William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(1969 AA:BOS), All the President's Men(1976 AA:BAS)

Akiva Goldsman, A Beautiful Mind(2001 AA:BAS) Debra Granik, Winter's Bone(2010 AA-N:BAS)

Moss Hart, Broadway Melody of 1936(1935 AA-N:BMPS), Gentleman's Agreement(1947 AA-N:BAS)

Ronald Harwood, The Dresser (1983 AA-N:BAS), The Pianist(2002 AA:BAS)

Lawrence Hauben, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest(1975 AA:BAS)

Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist (2011 AA-N:BOS)

Ben Hecht, Underworld(1927/1928 AA:BMPS), Viva Villa!(1934 AA-N:BAS), The Scoundrel(1935 AA:BMPS), Wuthering Heights(1939 AA-N:BAS), Angels Over Broadway (1940 AA-N:BOS), Notorious (1946 AA-N:BOS)

Lukas Heller, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Dirty Dozen, Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte

Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes(1941 AA-N:BAS), The North Star(1943 AA-N:BOS),Heinz Herald, The Life of Emil Zola(1937 AA:BAS), Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet(1940 AA-N:BOS)

Géza Herczeg, The Life of Emil Zola(1937 AA:BAS)

Samuel Hoffenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(1931 AA-N:BAS), Laura(1944 AA-N:BAS)

Paul Jarrico, Tom, Dick and Harry(1941 AA-N:BOS) Tamara Jenkins¹, Slums of Beverly Hills, The Savages(2007 AA-N:BOS)

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, A Room with a View(1986 AA:BAS), Howards End(1992 AA:BAS), The Remains of the Day (1993 AA-N:BAS)

Julian Josephson, Disraeli(1929 AA-N:BOS), The Rains Came, Stanley and Livingstone

Garson Kanin, A Double Life(1947 AA-N:BOS)

Michael Kanin, Woman of the Year(1942 AA:BOS)

Lawrence Kasdan, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi, The Big Chill (1983 AA-N: BOS), The Accidental Tourist (1988 AA-N:BAS), Grand Canyon (1991 AA-N:BOS), Continental Divide, Body Heat

Charlie Kaufman, Being John Malkovich (1999 AA-N:BOS), Adaptation (2002 AA-N:BAS),Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind(2004 AA:BOS)

George S. Kaufman, A Night at the Opera Pulitzer Prize for Drama: You Can't Take It With You (1937, with Moss Hart), and Of Thee I Sing (1932, with Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin). He also won the Tony Award as a Director, for the musical Guys and Dolls.

Howard Koch, Sergeant York(1941 AA-N:BOS), Casablanca(1943 AA:BAS), War of the Worlds (radioplay)

Frederick Kohner, Mad About Music(1938 AA-N:BMPS)

Norman Krasna, The Richest Girl in the World(1934 AA-N:BOS), Fury(1936 AA-N:BOS), The Devil and Miss Jones(1941 AA-N:BOS), Princess O'Rourke(1943 AA:BOS)

Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove(1964 AA-N:BAS), 2001: A Space Odyssey(1968 AA-N:BOS), A Clockwork Orange(1971 AA-N:BAS), Barry Lyndon(1975 AA-N:BAS), Full Metal Jacket (1987 AA-N: BAS)

Jeremy Larner, The Candidate(1972 AA:BOS) Arthur Laurents, The Turning Point(1978 AA-N:BOS), Bonjour Tristesse, Anastasia, The Way We Were

Carl Kurlander St Elmo’s Fire, Saved by the Bell: The New Class,

Hang Time, USA High and Malibu, CA

John Howard Lawson, Blockade(1938 AA-N:BMPS)

Norman Milton Lear All in the Family, Maude, Good Times, Jeffersons

Ernest Lehman, North by Northwest(1959 AA-N:BOS), West Side Story(1961 AA-N:BAS), The Sound of Music, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?(1966 AA-N:BAS) Mike Leigh, Secrets & Lies(1996 AA-N:BOS), Another Year(2010 AA-N:BOS)

Claude Lelouch, A Man and a Woman(1966 AA:BOS)

Melchior Lengyel, Ninotchka(1939 AA-N:BMPS)

Alan Jay Lerner, An American in Paris(1951 AA:BOS), Gigi(1958 AA:BAS), My Fair Lady(1964 AA-N:BAS)

Sonya Levien, State Fair(1932/1933 AA-N:BAS), Interrupted Melody(1955 AA:BOS)

Barry Levinson, ...And Justice for All(1979 AA-N:BOS), Diner (1982 AA-N: BOS), Avalon (1990 AA-N:BOS)

Albert Lewin, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

William Ludwig, Interrupted Melody(1955 AA:BOS)

Sidney Lumet, Prince of the City(1981 AA-N:BAS)

Richard Maibaum, Goldfinger, From Russia with Love, Diamonds Are Forever, The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only

David Mamet, The Verdict(1982 AA-N:BAS), Wag the Dog (1997 AA-N:BAS)

Marc "Babaloo" Mandel, Splash(1984 AA-N:BOS), City Slickers Herman J. Mankiewicz, Citizen Kane (1941 AA:BOS)

Joseph L. Mankiewicz, A Letter to Three Wives(1949 AA:BAS), All About Eve(1950 AA:BAS)

Wolf Mankowitz, Casino Royale

Abby Mann, Judgment at Nuremberg(1961 AA:BAS)

Elaine May, Heaven Can Wait(1978 AA-N:BAS), Primary Colors (1998 AA-N: BAS)

Paul Mazursky, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice(1969 AA-N:BOS), Harry and Tonto(1974 AA-N:BOS), An Unmarried Woman(1978 AA-N:BOS), Enemies, A Love Story(1989 AA-N:BAS)

Mark Medoff, Children of a Lesser God(1986 AA-N:BAS)

Nicholas Meyer, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution(1976 AA-N:BAS), Star Trek II, IV, & VI

Alfred Neumann, None Shall Escape(1944 AA-N:BMPS)

Max Ophuls, La Ronde(1949 AA-N:BAS)

George Oppenheimer, A Day at the Races

Alan Pakula, Sophie's Choice(1982 AA-N:BAS)

Norman Panama, Road to Utopia(1946 AA-N:BOS), White Christmas, Knock on Wood(1954 AA-N:BOS), The Facts of Life(1960 AA-N:BOS)

Dorothy Parker², A Star is Born(1937 AA-N:BAS)

S. J. Perelman, Around the World in Eighty Days(1956 AA:BAS)

Eleanor Perry, David and Lisa(1962 AA-N:BAS), Diary of a Mad Housewife

Harold Pinter, The French Lieutenant's Woman(1981 AA-N:BAS), Betrayal (1983 AA-N:BAS)

Robert Pirosh, Battleground(1949 AA:BOS), A Day at the Races

Abraham Polonsky, Body and Soul(1947 AA-N:BOS)

Emeric Pressburger, The Invaders(1942 AA:BMPS), The Red Shoes(1948 AA-N:BMPS)

Harold Ramis,Animal House, Ghost Busters

Frederic Raphael, Darling(1965 AA:BOS)

Samson Raphaelson, Heaven Can Wait, Green Dolphin Street , (1965 AA:BOS)

Irving Ravetch, Hud (1963 AA-N:BAS), Norma Rae (1979 AA-N:BAS)

Walter Reisch, Ninotchka(1939 AA-N:BAS), Comrade X(1940 AA-N:BMPS), Gaslight(1944 AA-N:BAS), Titanic(1953 AA:BOS)

Maurice Richlin, Pillow Talk(1959 AA:BOS)

Robert Riskin, Lady for a Day(1932/1933 AA-N:BAS), It Happened One Night(1934 AA:BAS), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town(1936 AA-N:BAS), You Can't Take It with You(1938 AA-N:BAS)

Robert Rossen, All the King's Men(1949 AA-N:BAS)

Eric Roth, Forrest Gump(1994 AA:BAS), The Insider (1999 AA-N:BAS), Munich (2005 AA-N:BAS)

Bruce Joel Rubin, Ghost(1990 AA:BOS)

Morrie Ryskind, My Man Godfrey(1936 AA-N:BAS), Stage Door(1937 AA-N:BAS), Animal Crackers, A Night at the Opera

David Saperstein, Cocoon

Dore Schary, Boys Town(1938 AA:BMPS and AA-N:BAS), Edison, the Man(1940 AA-N:BMPS)

Murray Schisgal, Tootsie, (1982 AA-N: BOS)

Charles Schnee, The Bad and the Beautiful(1952 AA:BAS) Budd Schulberg, On the Waterfront(1954 AA:BOS), A Face in the Crowd

Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society(1989 AA:BOS)

Erich Segal, Yellow Submarine, Love Story, Oliver's Story

Harry Segall, Here Comes Mr. Jordan(1941 AA:BMPS)

David Seidler, The King's Speech(2010 AA:BOS)

Rod Serling, Requiem for a Heavyweight, The Twilight Zone (majority of scripts for the TV series), Seven Days in May, Planet of the Apes

Peter Shaffer, Equus(1977 AA-N:BAS), Amadeus(1984 AA:BAS)

Steve Shagan, Save the Tiger (1973 AA-N:BOS), City of Angels, Voyage of the Damned (1976 AA-N:BAS)

Stanley Shapiro, Pillow Talk(1959 AA:BOS), Lover Come Back (1961 AA-N:BOS), That Touch of Mink (1962 AA-N:BOS)

Melville Shavelson, I'll See You in My Dreams, Houseboat, Cast a Giant Shadow

Irwin Shaw, The Talk of the Town(1942 AA-N:BAS)

Sidney Sheldon, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer(1947 AA:BOS) Neil Simon, The Odd Couple(1968 AA-N:BAS), The Sunshine Boys(1975 AA-N:BAS), The Goodbye Girl(1977 AA-N:BOS), California Suite(1978 AA-N:BAS), Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues

Curt Siodmak, The Wolf Man

Tess Slesinger, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 AA-N:BAS)

Aaron Sorkin, Lead writer, years 1-4:The West Wing (2000 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a TV Drama Series), The American President, The Social Network (2010 AA:BAS), Moneyball (2011 AA-N:BAS)

Bella and Samuel Spewack, My Favorite Wife(1940 AA-N:BMPS)

Oliver Stone³, Midnight Express(1978 AA:BAS), Platoon (1986 AA-N:BOS), Born on the Fourth of July (1989 AA-N: BAS)

Peter Stone, Father Goose(1964 AA:BOS)

Sir Tom Stoppard, Brazil (1985 AA-N:BOS), Shakespeare in Love(1998 AA:BOS)

Jo Swerling, The Pride of the Yankees (1942 AA-N:BAS)

Daniel Taradash, From Here to Eternity(1953 AA:BAS)

Frank Tarloff, Father Goose(1964 AA:BOS)

Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy(1989 AA:BAS)

Malvin Wald, The Naked City(1948 AA-N:BMPS)

David Wechsler, The Search(1948 AA:BMPS, AA-N:BAS)

Billy Wilder, Ninotchka(1939 AA-N:BAS), Ball of Fire(1941 AA-N:BMPS), Hold Back the Dawn(1941 AA-N:BAS), Double Indemnity(1944 AA-N:BAS), The Lost Weekend(1945 AA:BAS),

Sunset Boulevard(1950 AA:BOS), The Apartment(1960 AA:BOS)

Philip Yordan, Dillinger(1945 AA-N:BOS), Detective Story(1951 AA-N:BAS), Broken Lance(1954 AA:BMPS)

Alan David “Bud” Yorkin All in the Family, Maude, Good Times, Sanford and Son

Nicole Yorkin Melrose Place (1993) - Judging Amy (1999–2001) Carnivàle (2003–2005) Battlestar Galactica (2005) Brotherhood (2006) The Riches (2007–2008) - FlashForward (2009–2010) The Killing (2011–present)

WRITERS

Fiction

Non Fiction

Playwrights

Publishers

Scriptwriters

Original Screenplay

Adapted Screenplay

PULITZER PRIZE for fiction WINNERS

Edna Ferber 1924 So Big

Herman Wouk 1952 The Caine Mutiny

Mackinlay Kantor 1956 Andersonville

Bernard Malamud 1967 The Fixer

Saul Bellow 1976 Humbolt’s Gift

Norman Mailer 1980 The Executioner’s Song

Ron Susskind

Other Fiction writers

· Walter Abish, novelist, poet, and short story writer

· Warren Adler, novelist and short story writer, known for The War of the Roses,^[1] Random Hearts, and The Sunset Gang ^[2]

· Woody Allen, short story writer, screenwriter

· Mary Antin, memoir writer

Molly Antopol, short story writer, 2014 National Book Award nominee ^[3]

Jacob M. Appel, novelist (The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up) and short story writer (Einstein's Beach House)^[4]

Max Apple, novelist and short story writer, known for memoirs about his grandparents and his collection The Oranging of America, in which he fantastically reimagines the burgeoning commercial monoculture of the 1970s

· Isaac Asimov, novelist, short story writer and prolific author of nonfiction, known for his science fiction works about robots Foundation and Galactic Empire and for writing books in 9 of the 10 categories of the Dewey Decimal Classification^[5]

· Shalom Auslander, novelist, short-story writer, memoirist

· Paul Auster, novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist

Isaac Babel, Riding with the Red Cavalry

· Herman Baer, author

· Melissa Bank, novelist

· David Michael Barrett, essayist, screenwriter and film producer

· Dorothy Walter Baruch, psychologist, children's stories & development

· Peter S. Beagle, novelist, The Last Unicorn

· Saul Bellow, novelist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts^[6]

· Aimee Bender, novelist and short story writer, known for her often fantastic and surreal plots and characters^[7]

· Karen Bender, novelist and short story writer

· Anne Bernays, novelist and non-fiction writer

· Gina Berriault, novelist and short story writer

· Alfred Bester, science fiction writer, The demolished man, winner of the inaugural Hugo Award in 1953

· Robert Bloch, crime, science, and horror fiction writer, author of Psycho

· Harold Bloom, literary critic

· Judy Blume, young adult fiction writer Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret., Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

· José Antonio Bowen, president of Goucher College

· Jane Bowles, writer and playwright

· Joshua Braff, novelist

· Gayle Brandeis, novelist

· David Brin, science fiction writer The Postman

· Harold Brodkey, short story writer and novelist

· Judy Budnitz, fiction writer

· Melvin Jules Bukiet, novelist and critic

· Abraham Cahan, novelist, short story writer, and journalist

· Ethan Canin, novelist

· Michael Chabon, novelist and short story writer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay ^[8]

· Jerome Charyn, novelist, short story writer and playwright

· Alan Cheuse, novelist and short story writer

· Ze'ev Chafets, columnist and author

· Harlan Coben, mystery fiction writer, Play Dead, Miracle Cure

· Joshua Cohen, novelist

· Bernard Cooper, novelist, short story writer^[9]

· Sloane Crosley, novelist, essayist

· Avram Davidson, science fiction writer

· Anita Diamant, novelist and non-fiction writer, The Red Tent

· E.L. Doctorow, novelist,Ragtime, Billy Bathgate

· Joel Eisenberg, novelist, screenwriter and producer, author of "The Chronicles of Ara" fantasy series with Steve Hillard ^[11]

· Harlan Ellison, science fiction writer

· Richard Ellmann, literary critic, won National Book Award for Nonfiction

· Nathan Englander, short story writer and novelist, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize^[12]

· Nora Ephron, novelist, screenwriter, essayist, Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally.., and Sleepless in Seattle

· Joseph Epstein, short story writer

· Howard Fast, novelist

· Jules Feiffer, novelist, cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter

Edna Ferber, playwright and novelist So Big, Showboat, The Good Earth Pulitzer Prize

· Bill Finger, co-creator of Batman

· Sid Fleischman, children's writer, screenwriter, novelist

· Barthold Fles,^[13] literary agent and non-fiction writer

· Jonathan Safran Foer, novelist and non-fiction writer, best known for

· novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)

· Kinky Friedman, songwriter and novelist

· Alan Furst, historical spy novelist

· Herbert Gold, novelist

· Myla Goldberg, novelist

· Emma Goldman, anarchist writer^[14]

· Rebecca Goldstein, novelist and philosopher

· Allegra Goodman, novelist and short story writer

· Vivian Gornick, essayist

· Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket), children's writer and novelist

· Mark Harris, novelist and biographer

· Heinrich Heine, born Harry Heine

· Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22^[15]

· Lillian Hellman, playwright, screenwriter, memoirist, novelist

· Mark Helprin, novelist and journalist

· Christopher Hitchens, literary critic and political activist^[16][17]

· Russell Hoban, fantasy and science fiction writer

· Laura Z. Hobson, novelist, Gentleman’s Agreement

· Dara Horn, novelist

· Irving Howe, World of our Fathers, literary critic^[18]

· Fannie Hurst, novelist and short story writer

· Fishel Jacobs, Jewish law, short story, children's writer Two Kings

· Rona Jaffe, novelist, The Best of Everything

· Erica Jong, novelist and poet, best known for second-wave feminist

· work Fear of Flying (1973)

Norton Juster Children’s book “The Phantom Tollbooth”

Franz Kafka, The Castle

· Roger Kahn, author of The Boys of Summer (1972)

· Bob Kane, co-creator of Batman

· Garson Kanin, playwright, screenwriter

Mackinlay Kantor Andersonville Pulitzer Prize

· Bel Kaufman, novelist, granddaughter of Sholom Aleichem, Up the Down Staircase

· Faye Kellerman, mystery writer

· Jonathan Kellerman, mystery and suspense writer, psychologist

· William Melvin Kelley, novelist and short-story writer

· Jamaica Kincaid, novelist and essayist

· Cyril M. Kornbluth, science fiction writer

· Jerzy Kosinski, author of The Painted Bird, Being There

· Nicole Krauss, best known for her three novels, Man Walks Into a Room (2002), The History of Love (2005) and Great House (2010)

· Ewa Kuryluk, author of Veil of Veronica

· Emma Lazarus, poet and novelist The poem on the Statue of Liberty

· Fran Lebowitz, author, known for her sardonic social commentary on American life through her New York sensibilities^[20]

· Eleanor Lerman, author and poet

· Bruno Lessing (pseudonym of Rudolph Edgar Block), science fiction writer, Comic Strip Katzenjammer Kids

· Julius Lester, children's fiction, non-fiction

· Harry Levin, literary critic and Joyce scholar

· Ira Levin, novelist and playwrights A Kiss Before Dying,

Rosemary's baby, The Stepford Wives,
and The Boys from Brazil

· Sam Lipsyte, novelist and short story writer

· David Liss, historical novelist

· Norman Mailer, novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate,The Naked and the Dead, Armies of the Night National Book Award. The Executioner's Song Pulitzer Prize

· Bernard Malamud, novelist, won National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, The Natural, The Fixer

· Janet Malcolm New Jornalism

· Theresa Malkiel (1874-1949), novelist and essayist

· Cindy Margolis, author of Having a Baby... when the Old-fashioned Way Isn't Working, Hope and Help for Everyone Facing Infertility

· Seymour Martin Lipset, political sociologist ^[21]

· Leonard Michaels, writer of short stories, novels, and essays

· Arthur Miller, playwright, screenwriter, and novelist, All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge

· Derek B. Miller, novelist

· Walter Mosley, novelist

· Reggie Nadelson, novelist known particularly for her mystery works^[22]

· Mark Obama Ndesandjo, author, half-brother of President Barack Obama^[23]

· Tillie Olsen, first-wave feminist writer, best known for her novella Tell Me a Riddle, title story in a collection of four short stories and winner of the O. Henry Prize in 1961

· Cynthia Ozick, short story writer, novelist, and essayist^[24][25]

· Grace Paley, short story writer and poet; finalist for both National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize

· Sara Paretsky, mystery writer

· Dorothy Parker, humorist, poet and short story writer

Boris Pasternak author of Doctor Zhivago

· Harvey Pekar, comic book writer, music critic

· S. J. Perelman, humorist, essayist, screenwriter

· Joan Peters, author of From Time Immemorial

· Jodi Picoult, novelist^[26]

· Daniel Pinkwater, children's and young adult author

· Belva Plain, novelist

· Chaim Potok, author, rabbi, The Chosen, The Promise, My name is Asher Lev

· Ayn Rand, novelist and founder of ObjectivismThe Fountainhead, AtlasShrugged

· Lea Bayers Rapp,^[28] non-fiction and children's fiction writer

Hans Augusto & Margret Rey Curious Greorge

· Charles Reznikoff, poet and novelist

· Laura Riding, novelist, poet, short story writer

· Harold Robbins, novelist, The Carpetbagers, Where Love Has gone

· Jonathan Rosen, editor, journalist, novelist, essayist

· Benjamin Rosebaum, science fiction writer

· Judith Rossner, novelist Looking for Mr. Goodbar

· Leo Rosten, humorist, novelist and short story writer

· Henry Roth, novelist and short story writer Call it Sleep

· Philip Roth, known for autobiographical fiction that explored Jewish and American identity, Goodbye Columbus

· Norman Rosten, novelist^[30]

· Mary Doria Russell, novelist

· Louis Sachar, children's writer

· Howard Morley Sachar, Historian

· Peter Sagal, author of The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them)^[31][32]

· J.D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye^[33]

· James Salter, novelist and short story writer

· Sarah Schulman novelist, historian, screenwriter and playwright

· Lore Segal, novelist and children's writer

· Maurice Sendak, children's writer and illustrator

· Ben Shapiro, a conservative political commentator, writer, and lawyer.

· Irwin Shaw, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story writer, The Young Lions, Rich Man Poor Man

· Robert Sheckley, science fiction writer

· Sidney Sheldon, playwright, screenwriter, and novelist, Movies The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) Television The Patty Duke Show, I Dream of Jeannie , Hart to Hart

· Gary Shteyngart (born 1972), Russian-born writer^[34]

· Irving Shulman, novelist and screenwriter

· Jerry Siegel, co-creator of Superman

· Joan Micklin Silver “Hester Street” “Crossing Delancey”

· Shel Silverstein, children's writer, poet, screenwriter, cartoonist

· Roger L. Simon, novelist and screenwriter

· Jo Sinclair (Ruth Seid), novelist

· Isaac Bashevis Singer, leading figure in Yiddish literature, won Nobel Prize The Magician of Lublin

· Israel Joshua Singer, novelist and short story writer

· Tess Slesinger, screenwriter, novelist and short story writer

· Susan Sontag, essayist and novelist

· Art Spiegelman, graphic novelist

· George Steiner (born 1929), literary critic^[36]

· Daniel Stern, novelist^[37]

· Louise Stern, novelist and playwright^[38]

· Steve Stern, novelist and short story writer whose work draws heavily on Jewish folklore and the immigrant experience; winner of the National Jewish Book Award^[39]

· R.L. Stine, novelist, horror fiction for children, Fear Street, Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, and The Nightmare Room

· Herbert Tarr, novelist

· Calvin Trillin, journalist, poet, novelist

· Jonathan Tropper, novelist^[40]

· Karen X. Tulchinsky, novelist and screenwriter

· Scott Turow, novelist and non-fiction writer, Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof, Pleading Guilty, and Personal Injuries

· Harry Turtledove, science fiction, fantasy and alternative history writer

· Leopold Tyrmand, writer^[41]

· Leon Uris (1924-2009), historical novelist, Exodus, Trinity, Topaz

· Lara Vapnyar, novelist and short story writer

· Judith Viorst (born 1932), known for her children's literature^[42]

· Stanley M. Wagner (1932-2013), rabbi and academic

· Ayelet Waldman, novelist and essayist

· Irving Wallace Book of Lists, The Chapman Report, The Man, and The Seven Minutes. The Prize, The Word, and The Fan Club

· Edward Lewis Wallant, novelist The Pawnbroker

· Jennifer Weiner, novelist and short story writer, Good in Bed, In Her

· Shoes

· Sadie Rose Weilerstein (1894-1993), author of children's books, including the K'tonton stories about the adventures of a thumb-sized boy^[43]

· Nathanael West, novelist Miss Lonelyhearts The day of the locust

· Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and author of 57 books^[44]

· Herman Wouk, novelist and non-fiction writer, The Caine Mutiny, Winds of War, War and Rememberance Pulitzer Prize

· Anzia Yezierska, novelist

· Leonard S. Zinberg (Ed Lacy), novelist

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JEWISH RECIPIENTS OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION
(53% of recipients)

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Listed below are recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction who were, or are, Jewish (or of partial Jewish descent, as noted). For lists of Jewish novelists, playwrights, poets, and other Jewish writers, see Jews in Literature.

Theodore H. White (1962), The Making of the President 1960
Barbara Tuchman (1963), The Guns of August
Richard Hofstadter¹ (1964), Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
David Brion Davis (1967), The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
Ariel Durant (1968), Rousseau And Revolution (The Story Of Civilization: Volume 10, with Will Durant)
Norman Mailer (1969), The Armies Of The Night
Erik Erikson² (1970), Gandhi's Truth
Barbara Tuchman (1972), Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945
Robert Coles³ (1973), Children of Crisis, Volumes II and III
Ernest Becker (1974), The Denial of Death
Carl Sagan (1978), The Dragons of Eden
Douglas Hofstatder (1980), Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Carl Schorske⁴ (1981), Fin-De-Siècle Vienna: Politics And Culture
Susan Margulies Sheehan (1983), Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
Paul Starr (1984), The Social Transformation Of American Medicine
Studs Terkel (1985), The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two
Joseph Lelyveld (1986), Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
J. Anthony Lukas (1986), Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
Daniel Yergin (1992), The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
David Remnick (1994), Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
Jonathan Weiner (1995), The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Tina Rosenberg (1996), The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
Richard Kluger (1997), Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
Jared Diamond (1998), Guns, Germs, and Steel
Herbert Bix (2001), Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Anne Applebaum (2004), Gulag: A History
Saul Friedlander (2008), The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
David Hoffman (2010), The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
Stephen Greenblatt (2012), The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Dan Fagin (2014), Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
Elizabeth Kolbert (2015), The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

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JEWISH RECIPIENTS OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA
(34% of recipients)

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Listed below are recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama who were, or are, Jewish (or of partial Jewish descent, as noted). For lists of Jewish novelists, playwrights, poets, and other Jewish writers, see Jews in Literature.

Elmer Rice (1929), Street Scene
George S. Kaufman (1932), Of Thee I Sing
Morrie Ryskind (1932), Of Thee I Sing
Ira Gershwin (1932), Of Thee I Sing
Sidney Kingsley (1934), Men in White
Moss Hart (1937), You Can't Take It With You
George S. Kaufman (1937), You Can't Take It With You
Arthur Miller (1949), Death of a Salesman
Oscar Hammerstein II¹(1950), South Pacific
Richard Rodgers (1950), South Pacific
Joseph Kramm (1952), The Shrike
Jerome Weidman (1960), Fiorello!
Jerry Bock (1960), Fiorello!
Sheldon Harnick (1960), Fiorello!
Abe Burrows (1962), How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
Frank Loesser (1962), How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
Howard Sackler (1969), The Great White Hope
Paul Zindel (1971), The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Michael Bennett² (1976), A Chorus Line
Marvin Hamlisch (1976), A Chorus Line
Edward Kleban (1976), A Chorus Line
David Mamet (1984), Glengarry Glen Ross
James Lapine (1985), Sunday in the Park with George
Stephen Sondheim (1985), Sunday in the Park with George
Alfred Uhry (1988), Driving Miss Daisy
Wendy Wasserstein (1989), The Heidi Chronicles
Neil Simon (1991), Lost in Yonkers
Tony Kushner (1993), Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
Jonathan Larson (1996), Rent
Paula Vogel³ (1998), How I Learned to Drive
Donald Margulies (2000), Dinner With Friends
David Auburn⁴ (2001), Proof
Quiara Alegría Hudes⁵ (2012), Water by the Spoonful
Annie Baker⁶ (2014), The Flick

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JEWISH PLAYWRIGHTS

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Listed below is a selection of playwrights who were, or are, Jewish (or of partial Jewish descent, as noted). For lists of Jewish novelists, screenwriters, poets, and other Jewish writers, see Jews in Literature.

S. Ansky, The Dybbuk
David Auburn¹, Proof (2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2001 Tony Award for Best Play)
George Axelrod, The Seven Year Itch
Richard Beer-Hofmann, Der Graf von Charolais, Jaakobs Traum, Der junge David
S. N. Behrman, No Time for Comedy, The Cold Wind and the Warm
David Belasco, Madame Butterfly (based on a story by J.L. Long), The Girl of the Golden West (both plays later made into operas by Puccini)
Tristan Bernard, Les pieds nickelés, L'anglais tel qu'on le parle, Le petit café, Jules, Juliette, et Julien, Le sauvage, Que le monde est petit
Abe Burrows, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1962 Pulitzer Prize for Drama)
Jerome Chodorov, My Sister Eileen (basis for the musical Wonderful Town), A Talent for Murder
Edna Ferber, Dinner at Eight, Stage Door (both with George S. Kaufman)
Harvey Fierstein, Torch Song Trilogy (1983 Tony Award for Best Play)
Herb Gardner, A Thousand Clowns, I'm Not Rappoport (1986 Tony Award for Best Play)
Richard Greenberg, Take Me Out (2003 Tony Award for Best Play)
Moss Hart, Once in a Lifetime, You Can't Take It With You (1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama), The Man Who Came to Dinner (with George S. Kaufman)
Ben Hecht, The Front Page (co-authored with Charles MacArthur)
Lillian Hellman, The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine
Israel Horovitz, The Indian Wants the Bronx, Line, Park Your Car in Harvard Yard
Quiara Alegría Hudes², Water by the Spoonful (2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama)
Eugène Ionesco³, Rhinoceros, The Lesson, The Chairs, Victims of Duty, The New Tenant, The Killer, Exit the King
George S. Kaufman, Once in a Lifetime (with Moss Hart), You Can't Take It With You (1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, with Moss Hart), The Man Who Came to Dinner (with Moss Hart), Dinner at Eight (with Edna Ferber), Stage Door (with Edna Ferber), Of Thee I Sing (1932 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, with Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin)
Sidney Kingsley, Men in White, Detective Story (1934 Pulitzer Prize for Drama)
Joseph Kramm, The Shrike (1952 Pulitzer Prize for Drama)
Karl Kraus, Die letzten Tage der Menschheit (The Last Days of Mankind)
Tony Kushner, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (1993 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 1993 Tony Award for Best Play), Angels in America: Perestroika (1994 Tony Award for Best Play)
Arthur Laurents, Home of the Brave
Jerome Lawrence, Inherit the Wind (co-author)
David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross (1984 Pulitzer Prize for Drama), Speed the Plow
Donald Margulies, Dinner With Friends (2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama)
Mark Medoff, Children of a Lesser God (1980 Tony Award for Best Play)
Arthur Miller, All My Sons (1947 Tony Award for Best Play), Death of a Salesman (1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 1949 Tony Award for Best Play), The Crucible (1953 Tony Award for Best Play), A View from the Bridge
Ferenc Molnar, The Devil, Liliom (story basis for the musical Carousel), The Guardsman (inspiration for the musical comedy The Chocolate Soldier), The Tale of the Wolf
Clifford Odets, Waiting for Lefty, Awake and Sing!, Golden Boy
Harold Pinter, The Homecoming (1967 Tony Award for Best Play), The Caretaker, The Birthday Party; 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature
Bernard Pomerance, The Elephant Man (1979 Tony Award for Best Play)
Yasmina Reza, 'Art' (1998 Tony Award for Best Play), God of Carnage (2009 Tony Award for Best Play)
Elmer Rice, Love Among the Ruins, Between Two Worlds, Street Scene (1929 Pulitzer Prize for Drama)
Howard Sackler, The Great White Hope (1969 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 1969 Tony Award for Best Play)
Dory Schary, Sunrise at Campobello (1958 Tony Award for Best Play)
Arthur Schnitzler, Liebelei, Reigen (later made into the film La Ronde), Der einsame Weg, Zwischenspiel, Der Ruf des Lebens, Das Weite Land, Professor Bernhardi
Anthony Shaffer, Sleuth (1971 Tony Award for Best Play)
Peter Shaffer, Equus (1975 Tony Award for Best Play), Amadeus (1981 Tony Award for Best Play), Five-Finger Exercise
Evgeny Shvarts⁴, The Dragon
Neil Simon, Come Blow Your Horn, Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxy Blues (1985 Tony Award for Best Play), Broadway Bound, Lost in Yonkers (1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 1991 Tony Award for Best Play)
Sir Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guidenstern Are Dead (1968 Tony Award for Best Play), Travesties (1976 Tony Award for Best Play), The Real Thing (1984 Tony Award for Best Play), The Coast of Utopia (2007 Tony Award for Best Play)
Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy (1988 Pulitzer Prize for Drama), The Last Night of Ballyhoo (1997 Tony Award for Best Play)
Wendy Wasserstein, The Heidi Chronicles (1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 1989 Tony Award for Best Play), The Sisters Rosensweig
Peter Weiss⁵, Marat/Sade (1966 Tony Award for Best Play)
Franz Werfel, Spiegelmensch, Bocksgesang, Paul Among the Jews, The Eternal Road
Sir Arnold Wesker, Roots, Chicken Soup with Barley
Herman Wouk, Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Israel Zangwill, The Melting Pot
Paul Zindel, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1971 Pulitzer Prize for Drama)

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JEWISH SCREENWRITERS AND TV & RADIO SCRIPTWRITERS

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Listed below are screenwriters and radio and television scriptwriters who were, or are, Jewish (or of partial Jewish descent, as noted). For lists of Jewish novelists, playwrights, poets, and other Jewish writers, see Jews in Literature. The following abbreviations are employed:

AA = Academy Award AA-N = Academy Award Nomination
BOS = Best Original Screenplay BAS = Best Adapted Screenplay BMPS = Best Original Motion Picture Story

Woody Allen, Annie Hall (1977 AA:BOS), Interiors (1978 AA-N: BOS), Manhattan (1979 AA-N: BOS), Broadway Danny Rose (1984 AA-N:BOS), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986 AA:BOS), Radio Days (1987 AA-N:BOS), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989 AA-N:BOS), Midnight in Paris (2011 AA:BOS)
Edward Anhalt, Panic in the Streets (1950 AA:BMPS), Becket (1964 AA:BAS)
George Axelrod, Bus Stop, Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961 AA-N:BAS), The Manchurian Candidate, Goodbye Charlie
Sanford Barnett, Father Goose (1964 AA:BOS)
S.N. Behrman, Jacobowsky and the Colonel
Irving Berlin, Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938 AA-N:BMPS), Holiday Inn (1942 AA-N:BMPS)
Lajos Biro, The Last Command (1927/1928 AA-N:BMPS)
Stuart Blumberg, The Kids Are All Right (2010 AA-N:BOS)
Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker (2009 AA: BOS)
Irving Brecher, Meet Me in St. Louis (1944 AA-N:BAS), Bye, Bye, Birdie
Marshall Brickman, Annie Hall (1977 AA:BOS), Manhattan (1979 AA-N: BOS)
James L. Brooks, Terms of Endearment (1983 AA:BAS), Broadcast News (1987 AA-N:BOS), As Good as It Gets (1997 AA-N:BOS)
Mel Brooks, The Producers (1968 AA:BOS), Young Frankenstein (1974 AA-N:BAS), Blazing Saddles
Richard Brooks, Elmer Gantry (1960 AA:BAS), Blackboard Jungle (1955 AA-N:BAS), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958 AA-N:BAS)
Sidney Buchman, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939 AA-N:BAS), Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941 AA:BAS), The Talk of the Town (1942 AA-N:BAS)
Arthur Caesar, Manhattan Melodrama (1934 AA:BMPS)
Paddy Chayefsky, Marty (1955 AA:BAS), Hospital (1971 AA:BOS), Network (1976 AA:BOS), The Americanization of Emily, Paint Your Wagon
Stan Chervin, Moneyball (2011 AA-N:BAS)
Jerome Chodorov, My Sister Eileen, Louisiana Purchase
Lisa Cholodenko, The Kids Are All Right (2010 AA-N:BOS)
Ethan Coen, Fargo (1996 AA:BOS), No Country for Old Men (2007 AA:BAS), True Grit (2010 AA-N:BAS)
Joel Coen, Fargo (1996 AA:BOS), No Country for Old Men (2007 AA:BAS), True Grit (2010 AA-N:BAS)
Alfred Cohn, The Jazz Singer (1927/28 AA-N:BAS)
Norman Corwin, Radio and Television Scriptwriter and Film Screenwriter: The Story of Ruth, Lust for Life (1956 AA-N:BAS)
Larry David, Head Writer: Seinfeld (1993 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a TV Comedy Series)
Paul Dehn, Seven Days to Noon (1951 AA:BMPS)
Helen Deutsch, Vally of the Dolls, Lili, I'll Cry Tomorrow, National Velvet
I. A. L. Diamond, The Apartment (1960 AA:BOS)
Harlan Ellison, TV scripts for: Star Trek (including The City on the Edge of Forever) and The Outer Limits (including Demon With a Glass Hand)
Henry and Phoebe Ephron, Carousel, Captain Newman, M.D. (1963 AA-N:BAS)
Nora Ephron, Silkwood (1983 AA-N:BOS), When Harry Met Sally (1989 AA-N:BOS), Sleepless in Seattle (1993 AA-N:BOS)
Julius Epstein, Four Daughters (1938 AA-N:BAS), Casablanca (1943 AA:BAS), Reuben, Reuben (1983 AA-N:BAS)
Philip Epstein, Casablanca (1943 AA:BAS)
Carl Foreman, High Noon (1952 AA-N:BAS), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957 AA:BAS), The Guns of Navarone (1961 AA-N:BAS)
Melvin Frank, Road to Utopia (1946 AA-N:BOS), Knock on Wood (1954 AA-N:BOS), The Facts of Life (1960 AA-N:BOS), A Touch of Class (1973 AA-N:BOS)
George Froeschel, Mrs. Miniver (1942 AA:BAS)
Daniel Fuchs, Love Me or Leave Me (1955 AA:BMPS)
Jules Furthman, Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 AA-N:BAS)
Lowell Ganz, Splash (1984 AA-N:BOS), City Slickers
Larry Gelbart, Oh, God! (1977 AA-N:BAS), Tootsie, (1982 AA-N: BOS)
Benjamin Glazer, Seventh Heaven (1927/1928 AA:BAS), Arise, My Love (1940 AA:BMPS)
Bo Goldman, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975 AA:BAS), Melvin and Howard (1980 AA:BOS)
James Goldman, The Lion in Winter (1968 AA:BAS)
William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969 AA:BOS), All the President's Men (1976 AA:BAS)
Akiva Goldsman, A Beautiful Mind (2001 AA:BAS)
Debra Granik, Winter's Bone (2010 AA-N:BAS)
Moss Hart, Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935 AA-N:BMPS), Gentleman's Agreement (1947 AA-N:BAS)
Ronald Harwood, The Dresser (1983 AA-N:BAS), The Pianist (2002 AA:BAS)
Lawrence Hauben, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975 AA:BAS)
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist (2011 AA-N:BOS)
Ben Hecht, Underworld (1927/1928 AA:BMPS), Viva Villa! (1934 AA-N:BAS), The Scoundrel (1935 AA:BMPS), Wuthering Heights (1939 AA-N:BAS), Angels Over Broadway (1940 AA-N:BOS), Notorious (1946 AA-N:BOS)
Lukas Heller, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Dirty Dozen, Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte
Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes (1941 AA-N:BAS), The North Star (1943 AA-N:BOS)
Buck Henry¹, Catch-22, The Graduate
Heinz Herald, The Life of Emil Zola (1937 AA:BAS), Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940 AA-N:BOS)
Géza Herczeg, The Life of Emil Zola (1937 AA:BAS)
Samuel Hoffenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 AA-N:BAS), Laura (1944 AA-N:BAS)
Paul Jarrico, Tom, Dick and Harry (1941 AA-N:BOS)
Tamara Jenkins², Slums of Beverly Hills, The Savages (2007 AA-N:BOS)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, A Room with a View (1986 AA:BAS), Howards End (1992 AA:BAS), The Remains of the Day (1993 AA-N:BAS)
Spike Jonze³, Her (2013 AA:BOS)
Julian Josephson, Disraeli (1929 AA-N:BOS), The Rains Came, Stanley and Livingstone
Garson Kanin, A Double Life (1947 AA-N:BOS)
Michael Kanin, Woman of the Year (1942 AA:BOS)
Lawrence Kasdan, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi, The Big Chill (1983 AA-N: BOS), The Accidental Tourist (1988 AA-N:BAS), Grand Canyon (1991 AA-N:BOS), Continental Divide, Body Heat
Charlie Kaufman, Being John Malkovich (1999 AA-N:BOS), Adaptation (2002 AA-N:BAS), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004 AA:BOS)
George S. Kaufman, A Night at the Opera
Howard Koch, Sergeant York (1941 AA-N:BOS), Casablanca (1943 AA:BAS), War of the Worlds (radioplay)
Frederick Kohner, Mad About Music (1938 AA-N:BMPS)
Norman Krasna, The Richest Girl in the World (1934 AA-N:BOS), Fury (1936 AA-N:BOS), The Devil and Miss Jones (1941 AA-N:BOS), Princess O'Rourke (1943 AA:BOS)
Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove (1964 AA-N:BAS), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 AA-N:BOS), A Clockwork Orange (1971 AA-N:BAS), Barry Lyndon (1975 AA-N:BAS), Full Metal Jacket (1987 AA-N: BAS)
Jeremy Larner, The Candidate (1972 AA:BOS)
Arthur Laurents, The Turning Point (1978 AA-N:BOS), Bonjour Tristesse, Anastasia, The Way We Were
John Howard Lawson, Blockade (1938 AA-N:BMPS)
Ernest Lehman, North by Northwest (1959 AA-N:BOS), West Side Story (1961 AA-N:BAS), The Sound of Music, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966 AA-N:BAS)
Mike Leigh, Secrets & Lies (1996 AA-N:BOS), Another Year (2010 AA-N:BOS)
Claude Lelouch, A Man and a Woman (1966 AA:BOS)
Melchior Lengyel, Ninotchka (1939 AA-N:BMPS)
Alan Jay Lerner, An American in Paris (1951 AA:BOS), Gigi (1958 AA:BAS), My Fair Lady (1964 AA-N:BAS)
Sonya Levien, State Fair (1932/1933 AA-N:BAS), Interrupted Melody (1955 AA:BOS)
Barry Levinson, ...And Justice for All (1979 AA-N:BOS), Diner (1982 AA-N: BOS), Avalon (1990 AA-N:BOS)
Albert Lewin, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
William Ludwig, Interrupted Melody (1955 AA:BOS)
Sidney Lumet, Prince of the City (1981 AA-N:BAS)
Richard Maibaum, Goldfinger, From Russia with Love, Diamonds Are Forever, The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only
David Mamet, The Verdict (1982 AA-N:BAS), Wag the Dog (1997 AA-N:BAS)
Marc "Babaloo" Mandel, Splash (1984 AA-N:BOS), City Slickers
Herman J. Mankiewicz, Citizen Kane (1941 AA:BOS)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, A Letter to Three Wives (1949 AA:BAS), All About Eve (1950 AA:BAS)
Wolf Mankowitz, Casino Royale
Abby Mann, Judgment at Nuremberg (1961 AA:BAS)
Elaine May, Heaven Can Wait (1978 AA-N:BAS), Primary Colors (1998 AA-N: BAS)
Paul Mazursky, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969 AA-N:BOS), Harry and Tonto (1974 AA-N:BOS), An Unmarried Woman (1978 AA-N:BOS), Enemies, A Love Story (1989 AA-N:BAS)
Mark Medoff, Children of a Lesser God (1986 AA-N:BAS)
Nicholas Meyer, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976 AA-N:BAS), Star Trek II, IV, & VI
John Milius, Apocalypse Now (1979 AA-N:BAS), Red Dawn, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Alfred Neumann, None Shall Escape (1944 AA-N:BMPS)
Max Ophuls, La Ronde (1949 AA-N:BAS)
George Oppenheimer, A Day at the Races
Alan Pakula, Sophie's Choice (1982 AA-N:BAS)
Norman Panama, Road to Utopia (1946 AA-N:BOS), White Christmas, Knock on Wood (1954 AA-N:BOS), The Facts of Life (1960 AA-N:BOS)
Dorothy Parker⁴, A Star is Born (1937 AA-N:BAS)
S. J. Perelman, Around the World in Eighty Days (1956 AA:BAS)
Eleanor Perry, David and Lisa (1962 AA-N:BAS), Diary of a Mad Housewife
Harold Pinter, The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981 AA-N:BAS), Betrayal (1983 AA-N:BAS)
Robert Pirosh, Battleground (1949 AA:BOS), A Day at the Races
Abraham Polonsky, Body and Soul (1947 AA-N:BOS)
Emeric Pressburger, The Invaders (1942 AA:BMPS), The Red Shoes (1948 AA-N:BMPS)
Bob Rafelson, Five Easy Pieces (1970 AA-N:BOS)
Harold Ramis, Animal House, Ghost Busters
Frederic Raphael, Darling (1965 AA:BOS)
Samson Raphaelson, Heaven Can Wait, Green Dolphin Street , (1965 AA:BOS)
Irving Ravetch, Hud (1963 AA-N:BAS), Norma Rae (1979 AA-N:BAS)
Walter Reisch, Ninotchka (1939 AA-N:BAS), Comrade X (1940 AA-N:BMPS), Gaslight (1944 AA-N:BAS), Titanic (1953 AA:BOS)
Maurice Richlin, Pillow Talk (1959 AA:BOS)
Robert Riskin, Lady for a Day (1932/1933 AA-N:BAS), It Happened One Night (1934 AA:BAS), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936 AA-N:BAS), You Can't Take It with You (1938 AA-N:BAS)
Robert Rossen, All the King's Men (1949 AA-N:BAS)
Eric Roth, Forrest Gump (1994 AA:BAS), The Insider (1999 AA-N:BAS), Munich (2005 AA-N:BAS)
Bruce Joel Rubin, Ghost (1990 AA:BOS)
Morrie Ryskind, My Man Godfrey (1936 AA-N:BAS), Stage Door (1937 AA-N:BAS), Animal Crackers, A Night at the Opera
David Saperstein, Cocoon
Alvin Sargent, Julia (1977 AA:BAS), Ordinary People (1981 AA:BAS)
Dore Schary, Boys Town (1938 AA:BMPS and AA-N:BAS), Edison, the Man (1940 AA-N:BMPS)
Murray Schisgal, Tootsie, (1982 AA-N: BOS)
Charles Schnee, The Bad and the Beautiful (1952 AA:BAS)
Budd Schulberg, On the Waterfront (1954 AA:BOS), A Face in the Crowd
Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society (1989 AA:BOS)
Erich Segal, Yellow Submarine, Love Story, Oliver's Story
Harry Segall, Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941 AA:BMPS)
David Seidler, The King's Speech (2010 AA:BOS)
Rod Serling, Requiem for a Heavyweight, The Twilight Zone (majority of scripts for the TV series), Seven Days in May, Planet of the Apes
Peter Shaffer, Equus (1977 AA-N:BAS), Amadeus (1984 AA:BAS)
Steve Shagan, Save the Tiger (1973 AA-N:BOS), City of Angels, Voyage of the Damned (1976 AA-N:BAS)
Stanley Shapiro, Pillow Talk (1959 AA:BOS), Lover Come Back (1961 AA-N:BOS), That Touch of Mink (1962 AA-N:BOS)
Melville Shavelson, I'll See You in My Dreams, Houseboat, Cast a Giant Shadow
Irwin Shaw, The Talk of the Town (1942 AA-N:BAS)
Sidney Sheldon, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947 AA:BOS)
Neil Simon, The Odd Couple (1968 AA-N:BAS), The Sunshine Boys (1975 AA-N:BAS), The Goodbye Girl (1977 AA-N:BOS), California Suite (1978 AA-N:BAS), Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues
Curt Siodmak, The Wolf Man
Tess Slesinger, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 AA-N:BAS)
Aaron Sorkin, Lead writer, years 1-4: The West Wing (2000 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a TV Drama Series), The American President, The Social Network (2010 AA:BAS), Moneyball (2011 AA-N:BAS)
Bella and Samuel Spewack, My Favorite Wife (1940 AA-N:BMPS)
Oliver Stone⁵, Midnight Express (1978 AA:BAS), Platoon (1986 AA-N:BOS), Born on the Fourth of July (1989 AA-N: BAS)
Peter Stone, Father Goose (1964 AA:BOS)
Sir Tom Stoppard, Brazil (1985 AA-N:BOS), Shakespeare in Love (1998 AA:BOS)
Jo Swerling, The Pride of the Yankees (1942 AA-N:BAS)
Daniel Taradash, From Here to Eternity (1953 AA:BAS)
Frank Tarloff, Father Goose (1964 AA:BOS)
Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy (1989 AA:BAS)
Malvin Wald, The Naked City (1948 AA-N:BMPS)
David Wechsler, The Search (1948 AA:BMPS, AA-N:BAS)
Billy Wilder, Ninotchka (1939 AA-N:BAS), Ball of Fire (1941 AA-N:BMPS), Hold Back the Dawn (1941 AA-N:BAS), Double Indemnity (1944 AA-N:BAS), The Lost Weekend (1945 AA:BAS), Sunset Boulevard (1950 AA:BOS), The Apartment (1960 AA:BOS)
Philip Yordan, Dillinger (1945 AA-N:BOS), Detective Story (1951 AA-N:BAS), Broken Lance (1954 AA:BMPS)

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JEWISH RECIPIENTS OF THE ACADEMY AWARD
FOR BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY*
(40% of recipients)

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Listed below are recipients of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay* who were, or are, Jewish (or of half-Jewish descent, as noted). For lists of Jewish novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, poets, and other Jewish writers, see Jews in Literature.

Herman J. Mankiewicz (1941), Citizen Kane
Michael Kanin (1942), Woman of the Year
Norman Krasna (1943), Princess O'Rourke
Sidney Sheldon (1947), The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Robert Pirosh (1949), Battleground
Billy Wilder (1950), Sunset Boulevard
Alan Jay Lerner (1951), An American in Paris
Walter Reisch (1953), Titanic
Budd Schulberg (1954), On the Waterfront
Sonya Levien (1955), Interrupted Melody
William Ludwig (1955), Interrupted Melody
Nathan E. Douglas¹ (1958), The Defiant Ones
Clarence Greene (1959), Pillow Talk
Maurice Richlin (1959), Pillow Talk
Stanley Shapiro (1959), Pillow Talk
I. A. L. Diamond (1960), The Apartment
Billy Wilder (1960), The Apartment
Sanford Barnett (1964), Father Goose
Peter Stone (1964), Father Goose
Frank Tarloff (1964), Father Goose
Frederic Raphael (1965), Darling
Claude Lelouch (1966), A Man and a Woman
Mel Brooks (1968), The Producers
William Goldman (1969), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Paddy Chayefsky (1971), Hospital
Jeremy Larner (1972), The Candidate
Robert Towne (1974), Chinatown
Paddy Chayefsky (1976), Network
Woody Allen (1977), Annie Hall
Marshall Brickman (1977), Annie Hall
Bo Goldman (1980), Melvin and Howard
Woody Allen (1986), Hannah and Her Sisters
Ronald Bass (1988), Rain Man
Tom Schulman (1989), Dead Poets Society
Bruce Joel Rubin (1990), Ghost
Ethan Coen (1996), Fargo
Joel Coen (1996), Fargo
Sir Tom Stoppard (1998), Shakespeare in Love
Pierre Bismuth (2004), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Charlie Kaufman (2004), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Mark Boal (2009), The Hurt Locker
David Seidler (2010), The King's Speech
Woody Allen (2011), Midnight in Paris
Spike Jonze² (2013), Her
Josh Singer (2015), Spotlight
Kenneth Lonergan³ (2016), Manchester By The Sea

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JEWISH RECIPIENTS OF THE ACADEMY AWARD
FOR BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
(34% of recipients)

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Listed below are recipients of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay who were, or are, Jewish (or of partial Jewish descent, as noted). For lists of Jewish novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, poets, and other Jewish writers, see Jews in Literature.

Benjamin Glazer (1927/1928), Seventh Heaven
Robert Riskin (1934), It Happened One Night
Heinz Herald (1937), The Life of Emil Zola
Géza Herczeg (1937), The Life of Emil Zola
Sidney Buchman (1941), Here Comes Mr. Jordan
George Froeschel (1942), Mrs. Miniver
Julius Epstein (1943), Casablanca
Philip Epstein (1943), Casablanca
Howard Koch (1943), Casablanca
Billy Wilder (1945), The Lost Weekend
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949), A Letter to Three Wives
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950), All About Eve
Charles Schnee (1952), The Bad and the Beautiful
Daniel Taradash (1953), From Here to Eternity
Paddy Chayefsky (1955), Marty
S. J. Perelman (1956), Around the World in Eighty Days
Carl Foreman (1957), The Bridge on the River Kwai
Alan Jay Lerner (1958), Gigi
Richard Brooks (1960), Elmer Gantry
Abby Mann (1961), Judgment at Nuremberg
Edward Anhalt (1964), Becket
James Goldman (1968), The Lion in Winter
Bo Goldman (1975), One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lawrence Hauben (1975), One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
William Goldman (1976), All the President's Men
Alvin Sargent (1977), Julia
Oliver Stone¹ (1978), Midnight Express
Alvin Sargent (1981), Ordinary People
James L. Brooks (1983), Terms of Endearment
Peter Shaffer (1984), Amadeus
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1986), A Room with a View
Alfred Uhry (1989), Driving Miss Daisy
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1992), Howards End
Eric Roth (1994), Forrest Gump
Akiva Goldsman (2001), A Beautiful Mind
Ronald Harwood (2002), The Pianist
Ethan Coen (2007), No Country for Old Men
Joel Coen (2007), No Country for Old Men
Aaron Sorkin (2010), The Social Network
Graham Moore (2014), The Imitation Game
David Rabinowitz (2018), BlacKkKlansman
Charlie Wachtel (2018), BlacKkKlansman
Taika Waititi² (2019), JoJo Rabbit

POETS

· Emma Lazarus was an American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist for Jewish causes" Lines from her poem "The New Colossusappear inscribed on a bronze plaque, installed in 1903, on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty

· The New Colossus

· by Emma Lazarus

· Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

· With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

· Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

· A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

· Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

· Mother of Exiles.
From her beacon-hand

· Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

· The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

· "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she

· With silent lips.
"Give me your tired, your poor,

· Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

· The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

· Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

· I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

· Irwin Allen Ginsberg

· Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy, and openness to Eastern religions.^[1][2]

· Ginsberg is best known for his poem "Howl" in which he denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States. San Francisco police and US Customs seized "Howl" in 1956, and it attracted widespread publicity in 1957 when it became the subject of an obscenity trial, as it described heterosexual and homosexual sex at a time when sodomy laws made homosexual acts a crime in every state. The poem reflected Ginsberg's own sexuality and his relationships with a number of men, including Peter Orlovsky, his lifelong partner.^[7] Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that "Howl" was not obscene: "Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous euphemisms?”

PUBLISHERS

Joseph Pulitzer

Arthur Ochs "Punch" Sulzberger Sr New York Times

Fiction

Non Fiction

Playwrights

Publishers

Scriptwriters

Original Screenplay

Adapted Screenplay

PULITZER PRIZE for fiction WINNERS

Edna Ferber 1924 So Big

Herman Wouk 1952 The Caine Mutiny

Mackinlay Kantor 1956 Andersonville

Bernard Malamud 1967 The Fixer

Saul Bellow 1976 Humbolt’s Gift

Norman Mailer 1980 The Executioner’s Song

Ron Susskind

Other Fiction writers

· Walter Abish, novelist, poet, and short story writer

· Warren Adler, novelist and short story writer, known for The War of the Roses,^[1] Random Hearts, and The Sunset Gang ^[2]

· Woody Allen, short story writer, screenwriter

· Mary Antin, memoir writer

Molly Antopol, short story writer, 2014 National Book Award nominee ^[3]

Jacob M. Appel, novelist (The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up) and short story writer (Einstein's Beach House)^[4]

· Shalom Auslander, novelist, short-story writer, memoirist

· Paul Auster, novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist

Isaac Babel, Riding with the Red Cavalry

· Herman Baer, author

· Melissa Bank, novelist

· David Michael Barrett, essayist, screenwriter and film producer

· Dorothy Walter Baruch, psychologist, children's stories & development

· Peter S. Beagle, novelist, The Last Unicorn

· Saul Bellow, novelist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts^[6]

· Aimee Bender, novelist and short story writer, known for her often fantastic and surreal plots and characters^[7]

· Karen Bender, novelist and short story writer

· Anne Bernays, novelist and non-fiction writer

· Gina Berriault, novelist and short story writer

· Alfred Bester, science fiction writer, The demolished man, winner of the inaugural Hugo Award in 1953

· Robert Bloch, crime, science, and horror fiction writer, author of Psycho

· Harold Bloom, literary critic

· Judy Blume, young adult fiction writer Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret., Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

· José Antonio Bowen, president of Goucher College

· Jane Bowles, writer and playwright

· Joshua Braff, novelist

· Gayle Brandeis, novelist

· David Brin, science fiction writer The Postman

· Harold Brodkey, short story writer and novelist

· Judy Budnitz, fiction writer

· Melvin Jules Bukiet, novelist and critic

· Abraham Cahan, novelist, short story writer, and journalist

· Ethan Canin, novelist

· Michael Chabon, novelist and short story writer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay ^[8]

· Jerome Charyn, novelist, short story writer and playwright

· Alan Cheuse, novelist and short story writer

· Ze'ev Chafets, columnist and author

· Harlan Coben, mystery fiction writer, Play Dead, Miracle Cure

· Joshua Cohen, novelist

· Bernard Cooper, novelist, short story writer^[9]

· Sloane Crosley, novelist, essayist

· Avram Davidson, science fiction writer

· Anita Diamant, novelist and non-fiction writer, The Red Tent

· E.L. Doctorow, novelist,Ragtime, Billy Bathgate

· Joel Eisenberg, novelist, screenwriter and producer, author of "The Chronicles of Ara" fantasy series with Steve Hillard ^[11]

· Harlan Ellison, science fiction writer

· Richard Ellmann, literary critic, won National Book Award for Nonfiction

· Nathan Englander, short story writer and novelist, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize^[12]

· Nora Ephron, novelist, screenwriter, essayist, Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally.., and Sleepless in Seattle

· Joseph Epstein, short story writer

· Howard Fast, novelist

· Jules Feiffer, novelist, cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter

Edna Ferber, playwright and novelist So Big, Showboat, The Good Earth Pulitzer Prize

· Bill Finger, co-creator of Batman

· Sid Fleischman, children's writer, screenwriter, novelist

· Barthold Fles,^[13] literary agent and non-fiction writer

· Jonathan Safran Foer, novelist and non-fiction writer, best known for

· novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)

· Kinky Friedman, songwriter and novelist

· Alan Furst, historical spy novelist

· Herbert Gold, novelist

· Myla Goldberg, novelist

· Emma Goldman, anarchist writer^[14]

· Rebecca Goldstein, novelist and philosopher

· Allegra Goodman, novelist and short story writer

· Vivian Gornick, essayist

· Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket), children's writer and novelist

· Mark Harris, novelist and biographer

· Heinrich Heine, born Harry Heine

· Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22^[15]

· Lillian Hellman, playwright, screenwriter, memoirist, novelist

· Mark Helprin, novelist and journalist

· Christopher Hitchens, literary critic and political activist^[16][17]

· Russell Hoban, fantasy and science fiction writer

· Laura Z. Hobson, novelist, Gentleman’s Agreement

· Dara Horn, novelist

· Irving Howe, World of our Fathers, literary critic^[18]

· Fannie Hurst, novelist and short story writer

· Fishel Jacobs, Jewish law, short story, children's writer Two Kings

· Rona Jaffe, novelist, The Best of Everything

· Erica Jong, novelist and poet, best known for second-wave feminist

· work Fear of Flying (1973)

Norton Juster Children’s book “The Phantom Tollbooth”

Franz Kafka, The Castle

· Roger Kahn, author of The Boys of Summer (1972)

· Bob Kane, co-creator of Batman

· Garson Kanin, playwright, screenwriter

Mackinlay Kantor Andersonville Pulitzer Prize

· Bel Kaufman, novelist, granddaughter of Sholom Aleichem, Up the Down Staircase

· Faye Kellerman, mystery writer

· Jonathan Kellerman, mystery and suspense writer, psychologist

· William Melvin Kelley, novelist and short-story writer

· Jamaica Kincaid, novelist and essayist

· Cyril M. Kornbluth, science fiction writer

· Jerzy Kosinski, author of The Painted Bird, Being There

· Nicole Krauss, best known for her three novels, Man Walks Into a Room (2002), The History of Love (2005) and Great House (2010)

· Ewa Kuryluk, author of Veil of Veronica

· Emma Lazarus, poet and novelist The poem on the Statue of Liberty

· Fran Lebowitz, author, known for her sardonic social commentary on American life through her New York sensibilities^[20]

· Eleanor Lerman, author and poet

· Bruno Lessing (pseudonym of Rudolph Edgar Block), science fiction writer, Comic Strip Katzenjammer Kids

· Julius Lester, children's fiction, non-fiction

· Harry Levin, literary critic and Joyce scholar

· Ira Levin, novelist and playwrights A Kiss Before Dying,

Rosemary's baby, The Stepford Wives,
and The Boys from Brazil

· Sam Lipsyte, novelist and short story writer

· David Liss, historical novelist

· Bernard Malamud, novelist, won National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, The Natural, The Fixer

· Janet Malcolm New Jornalism

· Theresa Malkiel (1874-1949), novelist and essayist

· Cindy Margolis, author of Having a Baby... when the Old-fashioned Way Isn't Working, Hope and Help for Everyone Facing Infertility

· Seymour Martin Lipset, political sociologist ^[21]

· Leonard Michaels, writer of short stories, novels, and essays

· Arthur Miller, playwright, screenwriter, and novelist, All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge

· Derek B. Miller, novelist

· Walter Mosley, novelist

· Reggie Nadelson, novelist known particularly for her mystery works^[22]

· Mark Obama Ndesandjo, author, half-brother of President Barack Obama^[23]

· Tillie Olsen, first-wave feminist writer, best known for her novella Tell Me a Riddle, title story in a collection of four short stories and winner of the O. Henry Prize in 1961

· Cynthia Ozick, short story writer, novelist, and essayist^[24][25]

· Grace Paley, short story writer and poet; finalist for both National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize

· Sara Paretsky, mystery writer

· Dorothy Parker, humorist, poet and short story writer

Boris Pasternak author of Doctor Zhivago

· Harvey Pekar, comic book writer, music critic

· S. J. Perelman, humorist, essayist, screenwriter

· Joan Peters, author of From Time Immemorial

· Jodi Picoult, novelist^[26]

· Daniel Pinkwater, children's and young adult author

· Belva Plain, novelist

· Chaim Potok, author, rabbi, The Chosen, The Promise, My name is Asher Lev

· Ayn Rand, novelist and founder of ObjectivismThe Fountainhead, AtlasShrugged

· Lea Bayers Rapp,^[28] non-fiction and children's fiction writer

Hans Augusto & Margret Rey Curious Greorge

· Charles Reznikoff, poet and novelist

· Laura Riding, novelist, poet, short story writer

· Harold Robbins, novelist, The Carpetbagers, Where Love Has gone

· Jonathan Rosen, editor, journalist, novelist, essayist

· Benjamin Rosebaum, science fiction writer

· Judith Rossner, novelist Looking for Mr. Goodbar

· Leo Rosten, humorist, novelist and short story writer

· Henry Roth, novelist and short story writer Call it Sleep

· Philip Roth, known for autobiographical fiction that explored Jewish and American identity, Goodbye Columbus

· Norman Rosten, novelist^[30]

· Mary Doria Russell, novelist

· Louis Sachar, children's writer

· Howard Morley Sachar, Historian

· Peter Sagal, author of The Book of Vice: Very Naughty Things (and How to Do Them)^[31][32]

· J.D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye^[33]

· James Salter, novelist and short story writer

· Sarah Schulman novelist, historian, screenwriter and playwright

· Lore Segal, novelist and children's writer

· Maurice Sendak, children's writer and illustrator

· Ben Shapiro, a conservative political commentator, writer, and lawyer.

· Irwin Shaw, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story writer, The Young Lions, Rich Man Poor Man

· Robert Sheckley, science fiction writer

· Sidney Sheldon, playwright, screenwriter, and novelist, Movies The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) Television The Patty Duke Show, I Dream of Jeannie , Hart to Hart

· Gary Shteyngart (born 1972), Russian-born writer^[34]

· Irving Shulman, novelist and screenwriter

· Jerry Siegel, co-creator of Superman

· Joan Micklin Silver “Hester Street” “Crossing Delancey”

· Shel Silverstein, children's writer, poet, screenwriter, cartoonist

· Roger L. Simon, novelist and screenwriter

· Jo Sinclair (Ruth Seid), novelist

· Isaac Bashevis Singer, leading figure in Yiddish literature, won Nobel Prize The Magician of Lublin

· Israel Joshua Singer, novelist and short story writer

· Tess Slesinger, screenwriter, novelist and short story writer

· Susan Sontag, essayist and novelist

· Art Spiegelman, graphic novelist

· George Steiner (born 1929), literary critic^[36]

· Daniel Stern, novelist^[37]

· Louise Stern, novelist and playwright^[38]

· Steve Stern, novelist and short story writer whose work draws heavily on Jewish folklore and the immigrant experience; winner of the National Jewish Book Award^[39]

· R.L. Stine, novelist, horror fiction for children, Fear Street, Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, and The Nightmare Room

· Herbert Tarr, novelist

· Calvin Trillin, journalist, poet, novelist

· Jonathan Tropper, novelist^[40]

· Karen X. Tulchinsky, novelist and screenwriter

· Scott Turow, novelist and non-fiction writer, Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof, Pleading Guilty, and Personal Injuries

· Harry Turtledove, science fiction, fantasy and alternative history writer

· Leopold Tyrmand, writer^[41]

· Leon Uris (1924-2009), historical novelist, Exodus, Trinity, Topaz

· Lara Vapnyar, novelist and short story writer

· Judith Viorst (born 1932), known for her children's literature^[42]

· Stanley M. Wagner (1932-2013), rabbi and academic

· Ayelet Waldman, novelist and essayist

· Irving Wallace Book of Lists, The Chapman Report, The Man, and The Seven Minutes. The Prize, The Word, and The Fan Club

· Edward Lewis Wallant, novelist The Pawnbroker

· Jennifer Weiner, novelist and short story writer, Good in Bed, In Her

· Shoes

· Sadie Rose Weilerstein (1894-1993), author of children's books, including the K'tonton stories about the adventures of a thumb-sized boy^[43]

· Nathanael West, novelist Miss Lonelyhearts The day of the locust

· Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and author of 57 books^[44]

· Herman Wouk, novelist and non-fiction writer, The Caine Mutiny, Winds of War, War and Rememberance Pulitzer Prize

· Anzia Yezierska, novelist

· Leonard S. Zinberg (Ed Lacy), novelist

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JEWISH RECIPIENTS OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION
(53% of recipients)

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Theodore H. White (1962), The Making of the President 1960
Barbara Tuchman (1963), The Guns of August
Richard Hofstadter¹ (1964), Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
David Brion Davis (1967), The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
Ariel Durant (1968), Rousseau And Revolution (The Story Of Civilization: Volume 10, with Will Durant)
Norman Mailer (1969), The Armies Of The Night
Erik Erikson² (1970), Gandhi's Truth
Barbara Tuchman (1972), Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945
Robert Coles³ (1973), Children of Crisis, Volumes II and III
Ernest Becker (1974), The Denial of Death
Carl Sagan (1978), The Dragons of Eden
Douglas Hofstatder (1980), Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Carl Schorske⁴ (1981), Fin-De-Siècle Vienna: Politics And Culture
Susan Margulies Sheehan (1983), Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
Paul Starr (1984), The Social Transformation Of American Medicine
Studs Terkel (1985), The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two
Joseph Lelyveld (1986), Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
J. Anthony Lukas (1986), Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
Daniel Yergin (1992), The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
David Remnick (1994), Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
Jonathan Weiner (1995), The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Tina Rosenberg (1996), The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
Richard Kluger (1997), Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
Jared Diamond (1998), Guns, Germs, and Steel
Herbert Bix (2001), Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Anne Applebaum (2004), Gulag: A History
Saul Friedlander (2008), The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945
David Hoffman (2010), The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
Stephen Greenblatt (2012), The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Dan Fagin (2014), Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
Elizabeth Kolbert (2015), The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

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JEWISH RECIPIENTS OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA
(34% of recipients)

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Elmer Rice (1929), Street Scene
George S. Kaufman (1932), Of Thee I Sing
Morrie Ryskind (1932), Of Thee I Sing
Ira Gershwin (1932), Of Thee I Sing
Sidney Kingsley (1934), Men in White
Moss Hart (1937), You Can't Take It With You
George S. Kaufman (1937), You Can't Take It With You
Arthur Miller (1949), Death of a Salesman
Oscar Hammerstein II¹(1950), South Pacific
Richard Rodgers (1950), South Pacific
Joseph Kramm (1952), The Shrike
Jerome Weidman (1960), Fiorello!
Jerry Bock (1960), Fiorello!
Sheldon Harnick (1960), Fiorello!
Abe Burrows (1962), How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
Frank Loesser (1962), How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
Howard Sackler (1969), The Great White Hope
Paul Zindel (1971), The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Michael Bennett² (1976), A Chorus Line
Marvin Hamlisch (1976), A Chorus Line
Edward Kleban (1976), A Chorus Line
David Mamet (1984), Glengarry Glen Ross
James Lapine (1985), Sunday in the Park with George
Stephen Sondheim (1985), Sunday in the Park with George
Alfred Uhry (1988), Driving Miss Daisy
Wendy Wasserstein (1989), The Heidi Chronicles
Neil Simon (1991), Lost in Yonkers
Tony Kushner (1993), Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
Jonathan Larson (1996), Rent
Paula Vogel³ (1998), How I Learned to Drive
Donald Margulies (2000), Dinner With Friends
David Auburn⁴ (2001), Proof
Quiara Alegría Hudes⁵ (2012), Water by the Spoonful
Annie Baker⁶ (2014), The Flick

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JEWISH PLAYWRIGHTS

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S. Ansky, The Dybbuk
David Auburn¹, Proof (2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2001 Tony Award for Best Play)
George Axelrod, The Seven Year Itch
Richard Beer-Hofmann, Der Graf von Charolais, Jaakobs Traum, Der junge David
S. N. Behrman, No Time for Comedy, The Cold Wind and the Warm
David Belasco, Madame Butterfly (based on a story by J.L. Long), The Girl of the Golden West (both plays later made into operas by Puccini)
Tristan Bernard, Les pieds nickelés, L'anglais tel qu'on le parle, Le petit café, Jules, Juliette, et Julien, Le sauvage, Que le monde est petit
Abe Burrows, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1962 Pulitzer Prize for Drama)
Jerome Chodorov, My Sister Eileen (basis for the musical Wonderful Town), A Talent for Murder
Edna Ferber, Dinner at Eight, Stage Door (both with George S. Kaufman)
Harvey Fierstein, Torch Song Trilogy (1983 Tony Award for Best Play)
Herb Gardner, A Thousand Clowns, I'm Not Rappoport (1986 Tony Award for Best Play)
Richard Greenberg, Take Me Out (2003 Tony Award for Best Play)
Moss Hart, Once in a Lifetime, You Can't Take It With You (1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama), The Man Who Came to Dinner (with George S. Kaufman)
Ben Hecht, The Front Page (co-authored with Charles MacArthur)
Lillian Hellman, The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine
Israel Horovitz, The Indian Wants the Bronx, Line, Park Your Car in Harvard Yard
Quiara Alegría Hudes², Water by the Spoonful (2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama)
Eugène Ionesco³, Rhinoceros, The Lesson, The Chairs, Victims of Duty, The New Tenant, The Killer, Exit the King
George S. Kaufman, Once in a Lifetime (with Moss Hart), You Can't Take It With You (1937 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, with Moss Hart), The Man Who Came to Dinner (with Moss Hart), Dinner at Eight (with Edna Ferber), Stage Door (with Edna Ferber), Of Thee I Sing (1932 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, with Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin)
Sidney Kingsley, Men in White, Detective Story (1934 Pulitzer Prize for Drama)
Joseph Kramm, The Shrike (1952 Pulitzer Prize for Drama)
Karl Kraus, Die letzten Tage der Menschheit (The Last Days of Mankind)
Tony Kushner, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (1993 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 1993 Tony Award for Best Play), Angels in America: Perestroika (1994 Tony Award for Best Play)
Arthur Laurents, Home of the Brave
Jerome Lawrence, Inherit the Wind (co-author)
David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross (1984 Pulitzer Prize for Drama), Speed the Plow
Donald Margulies, Dinner With Friends (2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama)
Mark Medoff, Children of a Lesser God (1980 Tony Award for Best Play)
Arthur Miller, All My Sons (1947 Tony Award for Best Play), Death of a Salesman (1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 1949 Tony Award for Best Play), The Crucible (1953 Tony Award for Best Play), A View from the Bridge
Ferenc Molnar, The Devil, Liliom (story basis for the musical Carousel), The Guardsman (inspiration for the musical comedy The Chocolate Soldier), The Tale of the Wolf
Clifford Odets, Waiting for Lefty, Awake and Sing!, Golden Boy
Harold Pinter, The Homecoming (1967 Tony Award for Best Play), The Caretaker, The Birthday Party; 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature
Bernard Pomerance, The Elephant Man (1979 Tony Award for Best Play)
Yasmina Reza, 'Art' (1998 Tony Award for Best Play), God of Carnage (2009 Tony Award for Best Play)
Elmer Rice, Love Among the Ruins, Between Two Worlds, Street Scene (1929 Pulitzer Prize for Drama)
Howard Sackler, The Great White Hope (1969 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 1969 Tony Award for Best Play)
Dory Schary, Sunrise at Campobello (1958 Tony Award for Best Play)
Arthur Schnitzler, Liebelei, Reigen (later made into the film La Ronde), Der einsame Weg, Zwischenspiel, Der Ruf des Lebens, Das Weite Land, Professor Bernhardi
Anthony Shaffer, Sleuth (1971 Tony Award for Best Play)
Peter Shaffer, Equus (1975 Tony Award for Best Play), Amadeus (1981 Tony Award for Best Play), Five-Finger Exercise
Evgeny Shvarts⁴, The Dragon
Neil Simon, Come Blow Your Horn, Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxy Blues (1985 Tony Award for Best Play), Broadway Bound, Lost in Yonkers (1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 1991 Tony Award for Best Play)
Sir Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guidenstern Are Dead (1968 Tony Award for Best Play), Travesties (1976 Tony Award for Best Play), The Real Thing (1984 Tony Award for Best Play), The Coast of Utopia (2007 Tony Award for Best Play)
Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy (1988 Pulitzer Prize for Drama), The Last Night of Ballyhoo (1997 Tony Award for Best Play)
Wendy Wasserstein, The Heidi Chronicles (1989 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 1989 Tony Award for Best Play), The Sisters Rosensweig
Peter Weiss⁵, Marat/Sade (1966 Tony Award for Best Play)
Franz Werfel, Spiegelmensch, Bocksgesang, Paul Among the Jews, The Eternal Road
Sir Arnold Wesker, Roots, Chicken Soup with Barley
Herman Wouk, Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Israel Zangwill, The Melting Pot
Paul Zindel, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1971 Pulitzer Prize for Drama)

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JEWISH SCREENWRITERS AND TV & RADIO SCRIPTWRITERS

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AA = Academy Award AA-N = Academy Award Nomination
BOS = Best Original Screenplay BAS = Best Adapted Screenplay BMPS = Best Original Motion Picture Story

Woody Allen, Annie Hall (1977 AA:BOS), Interiors (1978 AA-N: BOS), Manhattan (1979 AA-N: BOS), Broadway Danny Rose (1984 AA-N:BOS), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986 AA:BOS), Radio Days (1987 AA-N:BOS), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989 AA-N:BOS), Midnight in Paris (2011 AA:BOS)
Edward Anhalt, Panic in the Streets (1950 AA:BMPS), Becket (1964 AA:BAS)
George Axelrod, Bus Stop, Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961 AA-N:BAS), The Manchurian Candidate, Goodbye Charlie
Sanford Barnett, Father Goose (1964 AA:BOS)
S.N. Behrman, Jacobowsky and the Colonel
Irving Berlin, Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938 AA-N:BMPS), Holiday Inn (1942 AA-N:BMPS)
Lajos Biro, The Last Command (1927/1928 AA-N:BMPS)
Stuart Blumberg, The Kids Are All Right (2010 AA-N:BOS)
Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker (2009 AA: BOS)
Irving Brecher, Meet Me in St. Louis (1944 AA-N:BAS), Bye, Bye, Birdie
Marshall Brickman, Annie Hall (1977 AA:BOS), Manhattan (1979 AA-N: BOS)
James L. Brooks, Terms of Endearment (1983 AA:BAS), Broadcast News (1987 AA-N:BOS), As Good as It Gets (1997 AA-N:BOS)
Mel Brooks, The Producers (1968 AA:BOS), Young Frankenstein (1974 AA-N:BAS), Blazing Saddles
Richard Brooks, Elmer Gantry (1960 AA:BAS), Blackboard Jungle (1955 AA-N:BAS), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958 AA-N:BAS)
Sidney Buchman, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939 AA-N:BAS), Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941 AA:BAS), The Talk of the Town (1942 AA-N:BAS)
Arthur Caesar, Manhattan Melodrama (1934 AA:BMPS)
Paddy Chayefsky, Marty (1955 AA:BAS), Hospital (1971 AA:BOS), Network (1976 AA:BOS), The Americanization of Emily, Paint Your Wagon
Stan Chervin, Moneyball (2011 AA-N:BAS)
Jerome Chodorov, My Sister Eileen, Louisiana Purchase
Lisa Cholodenko, The Kids Are All Right (2010 AA-N:BOS)
Ethan Coen, Fargo (1996 AA:BOS), No Country for Old Men (2007 AA:BAS), True Grit (2010 AA-N:BAS)
Joel Coen, Fargo (1996 AA:BOS), No Country for Old Men (2007 AA:BAS), True Grit (2010 AA-N:BAS)
Alfred Cohn, The Jazz Singer (1927/28 AA-N:BAS)
Norman Corwin, Radio and Television Scriptwriter and Film Screenwriter: The Story of Ruth, Lust for Life (1956 AA-N:BAS)
Larry David, Head Writer: Seinfeld (1993 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a TV Comedy Series)
Paul Dehn, Seven Days to Noon (1951 AA:BMPS)
Helen Deutsch, Vally of the Dolls, Lili, I'll Cry Tomorrow, National Velvet
I. A. L. Diamond, The Apartment (1960 AA:BOS)
Harlan Ellison, TV scripts for: Star Trek (including The City on the Edge of Forever) and The Outer Limits (including Demon With a Glass Hand)
Henry and Phoebe Ephron, Carousel, Captain Newman, M.D. (1963 AA-N:BAS)
Nora Ephron, Silkwood (1983 AA-N:BOS), When Harry Met Sally (1989 AA-N:BOS), Sleepless in Seattle (1993 AA-N:BOS)
Julius Epstein, Four Daughters (1938 AA-N:BAS), Casablanca (1943 AA:BAS), Reuben, Reuben (1983 AA-N:BAS)
Philip Epstein, Casablanca (1943 AA:BAS)
Carl Foreman, High Noon (1952 AA-N:BAS), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957 AA:BAS), The Guns of Navarone (1961 AA-N:BAS)
Melvin Frank, Road to Utopia (1946 AA-N:BOS), Knock on Wood (1954 AA-N:BOS), The Facts of Life (1960 AA-N:BOS), A Touch of Class (1973 AA-N:BOS)
George Froeschel, Mrs. Miniver (1942 AA:BAS)
Daniel Fuchs, Love Me or Leave Me (1955 AA:BMPS)
Jules Furthman, Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 AA-N:BAS)
Lowell Ganz, Splash (1984 AA-N:BOS), City Slickers
Larry Gelbart, Oh, God! (1977 AA-N:BAS), Tootsie, (1982 AA-N: BOS)
Benjamin Glazer, Seventh Heaven (1927/1928 AA:BAS), Arise, My Love (1940 AA:BMPS)
Bo Goldman, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975 AA:BAS), Melvin and Howard (1980 AA:BOS)
James Goldman, The Lion in Winter (1968 AA:BAS)
William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969 AA:BOS), All the President's Men (1976 AA:BAS)
Akiva Goldsman, A Beautiful Mind (2001 AA:BAS)
Debra Granik, Winter's Bone (2010 AA-N:BAS)
Moss Hart, Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935 AA-N:BMPS), Gentleman's Agreement (1947 AA-N:BAS)
Ronald Harwood, The Dresser (1983 AA-N:BAS), The Pianist (2002 AA:BAS)
Lawrence Hauben, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975 AA:BAS)
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist (2011 AA-N:BOS)
Ben Hecht, Underworld (1927/1928 AA:BMPS), Viva Villa! (1934 AA-N:BAS), The Scoundrel (1935 AA:BMPS), Wuthering Heights (1939 AA-N:BAS), Angels Over Broadway (1940 AA-N:BOS), Notorious (1946 AA-N:BOS)
Lukas Heller, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Dirty Dozen, Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte
Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes (1941 AA-N:BAS), The North Star (1943 AA-N:BOS)
Buck Henry¹, Catch-22, The Graduate
Heinz Herald, The Life of Emil Zola (1937 AA:BAS), Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940 AA-N:BOS)
Géza Herczeg, The Life of Emil Zola (1937 AA:BAS)
Samuel Hoffenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 AA-N:BAS), Laura (1944 AA-N:BAS)
Paul Jarrico, Tom, Dick and Harry (1941 AA-N:BOS)
Tamara Jenkins², Slums of Beverly Hills, The Savages (2007 AA-N:BOS)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, A Room with a View (1986 AA:BAS), Howards End (1992 AA:BAS), The Remains of the Day (1993 AA-N:BAS)
Spike Jonze³, Her (2013 AA:BOS)
Julian Josephson, Disraeli (1929 AA-N:BOS), The Rains Came, Stanley and Livingstone
Garson Kanin, A Double Life (1947 AA-N:BOS)
Michael Kanin, Woman of the Year (1942 AA:BOS)
Lawrence Kasdan, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi, The Big Chill (1983 AA-N: BOS), The Accidental Tourist (1988 AA-N:BAS), Grand Canyon (1991 AA-N:BOS), Continental Divide, Body Heat
Charlie Kaufman, Being John Malkovich (1999 AA-N:BOS), Adaptation (2002 AA-N:BAS), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004 AA:BOS)
George S. Kaufman, A Night at the Opera
Howard Koch, Sergeant York (1941 AA-N:BOS), Casablanca (1943 AA:BAS), War of the Worlds (radioplay)
Frederick Kohner, Mad About Music (1938 AA-N:BMPS)
Norman Krasna, The Richest Girl in the World (1934 AA-N:BOS), Fury (1936 AA-N:BOS), The Devil and Miss Jones (1941 AA-N:BOS), Princess O'Rourke (1943 AA:BOS)
Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove (1964 AA-N:BAS), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 AA-N:BOS), A Clockwork Orange (1971 AA-N:BAS), Barry Lyndon (1975 AA-N:BAS), Full Metal Jacket (1987 AA-N: BAS)
Jeremy Larner, The Candidate (1972 AA:BOS)
Arthur Laurents, The Turning Point (1978 AA-N:BOS), Bonjour Tristesse, Anastasia, The Way We Were
John Howard Lawson, Blockade (1938 AA-N:BMPS)
Ernest Lehman, North by Northwest (1959 AA-N:BOS), West Side Story (1961 AA-N:BAS), The Sound of Music, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966 AA-N:BAS)
Mike Leigh, Secrets & Lies (1996 AA-N:BOS), Another Year (2010 AA-N:BOS)
Claude Lelouch, A Man and a Woman (1966 AA:BOS)
Melchior Lengyel, Ninotchka (1939 AA-N:BMPS)
Alan Jay Lerner, An American in Paris (1951 AA:BOS), Gigi (1958 AA:BAS), My Fair Lady (1964 AA-N:BAS)
Sonya Levien, State Fair (1932/1933 AA-N:BAS), Interrupted Melody (1955 AA:BOS)
Barry Levinson, ...And Justice for All (1979 AA-N:BOS), Diner (1982 AA-N: BOS), Avalon (1990 AA-N:BOS)
Albert Lewin, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
William Ludwig, Interrupted Melody (1955 AA:BOS)
Sidney Lumet, Prince of the City (1981 AA-N:BAS)
Richard Maibaum, Goldfinger, From Russia with Love, Diamonds Are Forever, The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only
David Mamet, The Verdict (1982 AA-N:BAS), Wag the Dog (1997 AA-N:BAS)
Marc "Babaloo" Mandel, Splash (1984 AA-N:BOS), City Slickers
Herman J. Mankiewicz, Citizen Kane (1941 AA:BOS)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, A Letter to Three Wives (1949 AA:BAS), All About Eve (1950 AA:BAS)
Wolf Mankowitz, Casino Royale
Abby Mann, Judgment at Nuremberg (1961 AA:BAS)
Elaine May, Heaven Can Wait (1978 AA-N:BAS), Primary Colors (1998 AA-N: BAS)
Paul Mazursky, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969 AA-N:BOS), Harry and Tonto (1974 AA-N:BOS), An Unmarried Woman (1978 AA-N:BOS), Enemies, A Love Story (1989 AA-N:BAS)
Mark Medoff, Children of a Lesser God (1986 AA-N:BAS)
Nicholas Meyer, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976 AA-N:BAS), Star Trek II, IV, & VI
John Milius, Apocalypse Now (1979 AA-N:BAS), Red Dawn, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Alfred Neumann, None Shall Escape (1944 AA-N:BMPS)
Max Ophuls, La Ronde (1949 AA-N:BAS)
George Oppenheimer, A Day at the Races
Alan Pakula, Sophie's Choice (1982 AA-N:BAS)
Norman Panama, Road to Utopia (1946 AA-N:BOS), White Christmas, Knock on Wood (1954 AA-N:BOS), The Facts of Life (1960 AA-N:BOS)
Dorothy Parker⁴, A Star is Born (1937 AA-N:BAS)
S. J. Perelman, Around the World in Eighty Days (1956 AA:BAS)
Eleanor Perry, David and Lisa (1962 AA-N:BAS), Diary of a Mad Housewife
Harold Pinter, The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981 AA-N:BAS), Betrayal (1983 AA-N:BAS)
Robert Pirosh, Battleground (1949 AA:BOS), A Day at the Races
Abraham Polonsky, Body and Soul (1947 AA-N:BOS)
Emeric Pressburger, The Invaders (1942 AA:BMPS), The Red Shoes (1948 AA-N:BMPS)
Bob Rafelson, Five Easy Pieces (1970 AA-N:BOS)
Harold Ramis, Animal House, Ghost Busters
Frederic Raphael, Darling (1965 AA:BOS)
Samson Raphaelson, Heaven Can Wait, Green Dolphin Street , (1965 AA:BOS)
Irving Ravetch, Hud (1963 AA-N:BAS), Norma Rae (1979 AA-N:BAS)
Walter Reisch, Ninotchka (1939 AA-N:BAS), Comrade X (1940 AA-N:BMPS), Gaslight (1944 AA-N:BAS), Titanic (1953 AA:BOS)
Maurice Richlin, Pillow Talk (1959 AA:BOS)
Robert Riskin, Lady for a Day (1932/1933 AA-N:BAS), It Happened One Night (1934 AA:BAS), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936 AA-N:BAS), You Can't Take It with You (1938 AA-N:BAS)
Robert Rossen, All the King's Men (1949 AA-N:BAS)
Eric Roth, Forrest Gump (1994 AA:BAS), The Insider (1999 AA-N:BAS), Munich (2005 AA-N:BAS)
Bruce Joel Rubin, Ghost (1990 AA:BOS)
Morrie Ryskind, My Man Godfrey (1936 AA-N:BAS), Stage Door (1937 AA-N:BAS), Animal Crackers, A Night at the Opera
David Saperstein, Cocoon
Alvin Sargent, Julia (1977 AA:BAS), Ordinary People (1981 AA:BAS)
Dore Schary, Boys Town (1938 AA:BMPS and AA-N:BAS), Edison, the Man (1940 AA-N:BMPS)
Murray Schisgal, Tootsie, (1982 AA-N: BOS)
Charles Schnee, The Bad and the Beautiful (1952 AA:BAS)
Budd Schulberg, On the Waterfront (1954 AA:BOS), A Face in the Crowd
Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society (1989 AA:BOS)
Erich Segal, Yellow Submarine, Love Story, Oliver's Story
Harry Segall, Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941 AA:BMPS)
David Seidler, The King's Speech (2010 AA:BOS)
Rod Serling, Requiem for a Heavyweight, The Twilight Zone (majority of scripts for the TV series), Seven Days in May, Planet of the Apes
Peter Shaffer, Equus (1977 AA-N:BAS), Amadeus (1984 AA:BAS)
Steve Shagan, Save the Tiger (1973 AA-N:BOS), City of Angels, Voyage of the Damned (1976 AA-N:BAS)
Stanley Shapiro, Pillow Talk (1959 AA:BOS), Lover Come Back (1961 AA-N:BOS), That Touch of Mink (1962 AA-N:BOS)
Melville Shavelson, I'll See You in My Dreams, Houseboat, Cast a Giant Shadow
Irwin Shaw, The Talk of the Town (1942 AA-N:BAS)
Sidney Sheldon, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947 AA:BOS)
Neil Simon, The Odd Couple (1968 AA-N:BAS), The Sunshine Boys (1975 AA-N:BAS), The Goodbye Girl (1977 AA-N:BOS), California Suite (1978 AA-N:BAS), Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues
Curt Siodmak, The Wolf Man
Tess Slesinger, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 AA-N:BAS)
Aaron Sorkin, Lead writer, years 1-4: The West Wing (2000 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a TV Drama Series), The American President, The Social Network (2010 AA:BAS), Moneyball (2011 AA-N:BAS)
Bella and Samuel Spewack, My Favorite Wife (1940 AA-N:BMPS)
Oliver Stone⁵, Midnight Express (1978 AA:BAS), Platoon (1986 AA-N:BOS), Born on the Fourth of July (1989 AA-N: BAS)
Peter Stone, Father Goose (1964 AA:BOS)
Sir Tom Stoppard, Brazil (1985 AA-N:BOS), Shakespeare in Love (1998 AA:BOS)
Jo Swerling, The Pride of the Yankees (1942 AA-N:BAS)
Daniel Taradash, From Here to Eternity (1953 AA:BAS)
Frank Tarloff, Father Goose (1964 AA:BOS)
Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy (1989 AA:BAS)
Malvin Wald, The Naked City (1948 AA-N:BMPS)
David Wechsler, The Search (1948 AA:BMPS, AA-N:BAS)
Billy Wilder, Ninotchka (1939 AA-N:BAS), Ball of Fire (1941 AA-N:BMPS), Hold Back the Dawn (1941 AA-N:BAS), Double Indemnity (1944 AA-N:BAS), The Lost Weekend (1945 AA:BAS), Sunset Boulevard (1950 AA:BOS), The Apartment (1960 AA:BOS)
Philip Yordan, Dillinger (1945 AA-N:BOS), Detective Story (1951 AA-N:BAS), Broken Lance (1954 AA:BMPS)

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JEWISH RECIPIENTS OF THE ACADEMY AWARD
FOR BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY*
(40% of recipients)

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Herman J. Mankiewicz (1941), Citizen Kane
Michael Kanin (1942), Woman of the Year
Norman Krasna (1943), Princess O'Rourke
Sidney Sheldon (1947), The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Robert Pirosh (1949), Battleground
Billy Wilder (1950), Sunset Boulevard
Alan Jay Lerner (1951), An American in Paris
Walter Reisch (1953), Titanic
Budd Schulberg (1954), On the Waterfront
Sonya Levien (1955), Interrupted Melody
William Ludwig (1955), Interrupted Melody
Nathan E. Douglas¹ (1958), The Defiant Ones
Clarence Greene (1959), Pillow Talk
Maurice Richlin (1959), Pillow Talk
Stanley Shapiro (1959), Pillow Talk
I. A. L. Diamond (1960), The Apartment
Billy Wilder (1960), The Apartment
Sanford Barnett (1964), Father Goose
Peter Stone (1964), Father Goose
Frank Tarloff (1964), Father Goose
Frederic Raphael (1965), Darling
Claude Lelouch (1966), A Man and a Woman
Mel Brooks (1968), The Producers
William Goldman (1969), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Paddy Chayefsky (1971), Hospital
Jeremy Larner (1972), The Candidate
Robert Towne (1974), Chinatown
Paddy Chayefsky (1976), Network
Woody Allen (1977), Annie Hall
Marshall Brickman (1977), Annie Hall
Bo Goldman (1980), Melvin and Howard
Woody Allen (1986), Hannah and Her Sisters
Ronald Bass (1988), Rain Man
Tom Schulman (1989), Dead Poets Society
Bruce Joel Rubin (1990), Ghost
Ethan Coen (1996), Fargo
Joel Coen (1996), Fargo
Sir Tom Stoppard (1998), Shakespeare in Love
Pierre Bismuth (2004), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Charlie Kaufman (2004), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Mark Boal (2009), The Hurt Locker
David Seidler (2010), The King's Speech
Woody Allen (2011), Midnight in Paris
Spike Jonze² (2013), Her
Josh Singer (2015), Spotlight
Kenneth Lonergan³ (2016), Manchester By The Sea

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JEWISH RECIPIENTS OF THE ACADEMY AWARD
FOR BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
(34% of recipients)

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Benjamin Glazer (1927/1928), Seventh Heaven
Robert Riskin (1934), It Happened One Night
Heinz Herald (1937), The Life of Emil Zola
Géza Herczeg (1937), The Life of Emil Zola
Sidney Buchman (1941), Here Comes Mr. Jordan
George Froeschel (1942), Mrs. Miniver
Julius Epstein (1943), Casablanca
Philip Epstein (1943), Casablanca
Howard Koch (1943), Casablanca
Billy Wilder (1945), The Lost Weekend
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949), A Letter to Three Wives
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950), All About Eve
Charles Schnee (1952), The Bad and the Beautiful
Daniel Taradash (1953), From Here to Eternity
Paddy Chayefsky (1955), Marty
S. J. Perelman (1956), Around the World in Eighty Days
Carl Foreman (1957), The Bridge on the River Kwai
Alan Jay Lerner (1958), Gigi
Richard Brooks (1960), Elmer Gantry
Abby Mann (1961), Judgment at Nuremberg
Edward Anhalt (1964), Becket
James Goldman (1968), The Lion in Winter
Bo Goldman (1975), One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lawrence Hauben (1975), One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
William Goldman (1976), All the President's Men
Alvin Sargent (1977), Julia
Oliver Stone¹ (1978), Midnight Express
Alvin Sargent (1981), Ordinary People
James L. Brooks (1983), Terms of Endearment
Peter Shaffer (1984), Amadeus
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1986), A Room with a View
Alfred Uhry (1989), Driving Miss Daisy
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1992), Howards End
Eric Roth (1994), Forrest Gump
Akiva Goldsman (2001), A Beautiful Mind
Ronald Harwood (2002), The Pianist
Ethan Coen (2007), No Country for Old Men
Joel Coen (2007), No Country for Old Men
Aaron Sorkin (2010), The Social Network
Graham Moore (2014), The Imitation Game
David Rabinowitz (2018), BlacKkKlansman
Charlie Wachtel (2018), BlacKkKlansman
Taika Waititi² (2019), JoJo Rabbit

POETS

· The New Colossus

· by Emma Lazarus

· Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

· With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

· Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

· A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

· Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

· Mother of Exiles.
From her beacon-hand

· Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

· The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

· "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she

· With silent lips.
"Give me your tired, your poor,

· Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

· The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

· Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

· I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

· Irwin Allen Ginsberg

PUBLISHERS

Joseph Pulitzer

Arthur Ochs "Punch" Sulzberger Sr New York Times