Howard Korder is an American screenwriter and playwright. He is the author of the 1988
coming-of-age
Coming of age is a young person's transition from being a child to being an adult. The specific age at which this transition takes place varies between societies, as does the nature of the change. It can be a simple legal convention or can ...
play ''
Boy's Life'', which earned him a
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It is one of the original Pulitzers, for the program was inaugurated in 1917 with seven prizes, four of which were a ...
nomination.
His play ''
Search and Destroy
Search and destroy, seek and destroy, or simply S&D is a military strategy best known for its employment in the Malayan Emergency and the Vietnam War. The strategy consists of inserting ground forces into hostile territory, ''search''ing out ...
'' was
adapted into a film in 1995. Among the screenplays he has written are ''
The Passion of Ayn Rand
''The Passion of Ayn Rand'' is a biography of Ayn Rand by writer and lecturer Barbara Branden, a former friend and business associate. Published by Doubleday in 1986, it was the first full-length biography of Rand and the basis for the 1999 f ...
'' and ''
Lakeview Terrace''. He is also one of the writers of ''
Boardwalk Empire''.
References
External links
*
*
American dramatists and playwrights
Living people
Date of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
{{US-playwright-stub