The author of "You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again" is Julia Phillips, a female pioneer in the movie business. She produced The Sting and Taxi Driver, among other films, and she did yeoman work on Close Encounters of the Third Kind, only to be screwed over by Stephen Spielberg. She would be about my age now if she had survived the cancer of her 50s.
Right now I have a grudge against movie producers in general, because they're the ones grinding down the writers who (last I heard) are still on strike.
My own favorite writer is the journalist Hanna Krall. Her few books in English translation are long- and short-form pieces about Polish Holocaust survivors. Poet & playwright Bertolt Brecht is a close second. The great historian of medieval Cairene Jewish social history, S. D. Goitein, would be next, and don't forget verismo master Giovanni Verga or the nameless authors of Icelandic sagas... I could go on...
Right now I have a grudge against movie producers in general, because they're the ones grinding down the writers who (last I heard) are still on strike.
My own favorite writer is the journalist Hanna Krall. Her few books in English translation are long- and short-form pieces about Polish Holocaust survivors. Poet & playwright Bertolt Brecht is a close second. The great historian of medieval Cairene Jewish social history, S. D. Goitein, would be next, and don't forget verismo master Giovanni Verga or the nameless authors of Icelandic sagas... I could go on...