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Peter Feibleman (August 1, 1930August 23, 2015) was an American author and screenwriter. He won critical acclaim for his novels and received multiple awards for his writings, including a Guggenheim Award in 1960 and a Golden Pen Award in 1983. He also wrote a number of plays and screenplays.
Peter Feibleman at the Biography Reference Bank
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Peter Feibleman (August 1, 1930August 23, 2015) was an American author and screenwriter. He won critical acclaim for his novels and received multiple awards for his writings, including a Guggenheim Award in 1960 and a Golden Pen Award in 1983. He also wrote a number of plays and screenplays.
Life
Feibleman was born in 1930 inNew York City
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and was raised in . He studied acting at the Carnegie Institute of Technology
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and also attended Columbia University
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. He was a member of P.E.N. and resided in Los Angeles
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Career
Starting in 1940, Feibleman worked as an actor in radio. From 1951 to 1957, he worked as an actor inSpain
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. He began writing in 1958. Feibleman was also a co-founder of DBA, a screenplay consulting firm.
Feibleman finished his first literary work, ''A Place without Twilight'', in 1958. The book was met with critical acclaim by the '' Saturday Review'' and other publications. Many of his other works were received well by critics.
Relationship with Lillian Hellman
Feibleman wasLillian Hellman
Lillian Florence Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American playwright, prose writer, memoirist and screenwriter known for her success on Broadway, as well as her communist sympathies and political activism. She was blacklisted aft ...
's long-time lover and friend, although she was seven years older than his own mother. He was the dedicatee of ''Pentimento
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Significance
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'', and was her principal heir and literary executor.ibid.
Awards
*Guggenheim Award for creative writing (1960) *Golden Pen Award for screenwriting (1983)Selected bibliography
Memoir
*''Lilly: Reminiscences of Lillian Hellman'' (1988)Novels
*''A Place without Twilight'' (1958) *''The Daughters of Necessity'' (1959) *''Strangers and Graves: Four Short Novels'' (''Death of Danaues'', ''Fever'', ''Along the Coast'', ''Eyes'') (1966) *''The Columbus Tree'' (1973) *''Charlie Boy'' (1980)Other writings
*''Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright: A Play'' (based on ''A Place without Twilight'', 1963) *''Ensign Pulver
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'' (screenplay, 1964)
* ''Profiles in Courage
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'' (TV series, 1964, episode 2 "Mary S. McDowell")
* ''His Eye is On the Sparrow'' (screenplay, 1969)
*''The Bayous'' (1973)
*''Cakewalk'' (play, 1998)
References
*''Contemporary Authors Online'', Gale, 2009. Reproduced in ''Biography Resource Center''. Farmington Hills, Michigan, Gale, 2009. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRCPeter Feibleman at the Biography Reference Bank
External links
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