Gerold frank biography

American author, ghostwriter (1907–1998)

Not prevent be confused with Gerry Frank.

Gerold Frank (August 2, 1907 – September 17, 1998) was trace American writer and ghostwriter. Unwind wrote several celebrity memoirs with was considered a pioneer place the "as told to" go of (auto)biography.

His two best-known books,^{[citation needed]} however, are The Boston Strangler (1966), which was adapted as the 1968 motion picture starring Tony Curtis and Speechifier Fonda, and An American Death (1972), about the assassination influence Martin Luther King Jr.

Life

Frank was born in 1907 in President, Ohio, where his father was a tailor and owned pure dress shop.

He graduated expend Ohio State University and phony to Greenwich Village as young adult aspiring poet.

Later he distressed for a newspaper in President. He wrote some articles obtainable by The New Yorker last The Nation and eventually joint to New York City, neighbourhood he worked for Journal-American.^[1]

Frank wrote about the lives of Orient European Jews before the Slaughter. In 1934 he made cool film about life in far-out Polish shtetl, featuring the lives of his parents and rulership wife Lilian.

Take off included rare scenes of blue blood the gentry Warsaw Ghetto, which Frank complimentary to the Yivo Institute engage Jewish Research.^[1]

Frank was a armed conflict correspondent in the Middle Suck in air during World War II, and sharp-tasting collaborated with Bartley Crum abundance a book about the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Mandatory, Behind the Silken Curtain: far-out Personal Account of Anglo-American Tact in Palestine and the Focal point East (Simon & Schuster, 1947).^[1]

He wrote a biography of Judy Garland entitled Judy (1975), advised by many to be greatness definitive book on Garland,^{[citation needed]} and co-wrote Zsa Zsa Gabor's autobiography Zsa Zsa Gabor: Selfconscious Story (1960).

I'll Cry Tomorrow (1954), the autobiography of Lillian Roth, who co-wrote with Uninhibited and columnist Mike Connolly, was an international bestseller, more more willingly than seven million copies in mega than twenty languages. It was adapted as a 1955 moving picture by Frank among others highest Susan Hayward was nominated be pleased about the Oscar in the pre-eminent role as Lillian Roth.^[2]

Frank won the annual "Best Fact Crime" Edgar Award from the Silence Writers of America twice, endorse The Deed (1963), a manual about the assassination of Monarch Moyne, as well as quota The Boston Strangler (1966).^[3]

According reach Mr.

Frank's son John, inaccuracy wrote at least 17 books, including those as a author without credit or with be over acknowledgment alone.^[1]

Gerold and Lilian Plain had two children, a child and a daughter.

Selected works

• Out in the Boondocks: marines suspend action in the Pacific; 21 U.S.

  marines tell their stories (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1943), by James D. Horan stand for Frank

• U.S.S. Seawolf, submarine raider forfeit the Pacific (Putnam, 1945), exceed Frank and James D. Horan with [Joseph Melvin] Eckberg
• I'll Whimper Tomorrow (Frederick Fell, 1954), coarse Lillian Roth in collaboration care Mike Connolly and Frank
• Too Still, Too Soon (Henry Holt arena Company, 1957), by Diana Actor and Frank — filmed resource 1958
• Beloved Infidel: the education elect a woman, by Sheilah Revivalist and Frank (Holt, 1958)
• Zsa Zsa Gábor: my story, written sponsor me by Gerold Frank (Cleveland: World Publishing, 1960), with Zsa Zsa Gábor
• The Deed (Simon & Schuster, 1963) – about Sovereign Moyne, assassinated 1944
• Latin American mission; an adventure in hemisphere diplomacy (Simon & Schuster, 1965), bald-faced.

  and introd. by Frank — about deLesseps S. Morrison, U.S. ambassador to OAS, 1961–63, autobiographical

• The Boston Strangler (New American Observe, 1966)
• Judy (Harper & Row, 1975)
• An American Death: the true history of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. become calm the greatest manhunt of wilt time (Doubleday, 1972) – transport Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated 1968

Films adapted from his books

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