Life
Haase was born in Frankfurt, Germany, the only son of a Lutheran father and Jewish mother. The growing threat of Nazi power forced the family to migrate to San Francisco in 1936. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, and then studied at the Dental School of the University of San Francisco. He enlisted during World War II, and served in the Army in Texas. Haase practiced in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, with many celebrities, includingHaase as author
His first novel, The Young Who Sin, appeared in 1958. ''Me and the Arch Kook Petulia'' takes a searingly satirical look at the America of the 1960s. It is the story of an affair between a middle-aged doctor, in the midst of a divorce, and a self-described kook who wants to have an affair because she has been married for six months and has not had one yet. Haase was not happy with the adaptation for screen. However the release of Lester's film was greeted with acclaim. The ''New York Times'', commenting in July 2006 on a DVD collection of comedies from the 1960s and 1970s, called ''Petulia'' the most notable of a group of groundbreaking films from the 1960s. ''Erasmus with Freckles'' features Erasmus Leaf, who nurses a crush for Brigitte Bardot, and his father, an absent-minded poet with a distaste for science, who has to deal with the mathematical genius that his son demonstrates. ''Big Red'', a historical novel, describes the construction of theBibliography
* ''The Young Who Sin'' (1958) * ''Road Show'' (1960) * ''The Fun Couple'' (1961, made into a play of the same name) * ''The Sherbert Colours'' (1963) * ''Erasmus with Freckles'' (1963; made into the film ''Trivia
* He married Janis aboard a cruise ship in San Pedro, California, with the band (friends of Haase) Van Halen performing dockside. * "The first draft was better than the book...(the later screenwriter) wrote about a world I'd never known existed, and if it does, I'd strongly suggest he keep it to himself." - Haase writing about the screen adaptation of his novel ''Me and the Arch Kook Petulia'' in the ''Los Angeles Times'' in 1967 * "Adapting a brilliant dentist's charming novel to the screen was like pulling teeth." - ''Dear Brigitte'' screenwriter Hal Kanter in the ''Los Angeles Times'' in 1964.References
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