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John Sacret Young (May 24, 1946 – June 3, 2021) was an American author, producer, director, and screenwriter primarily in television, perhaps best known for his work on the show '' China Beach''. Young was nominated for seven Emmys and seven
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s, winning two WGA Awards.


Life and career

Young co-created, along with William F. Broyles Jr., '' China Beach'', the ABC drama series about the medics and nurses during the
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. For his work on the show, Young received five Emmy and four Writer's Guild Award nominations. The WGA honored him with the Award for an episode he also directed.'' The West Wing'' brought him two more Emmy and two more WGA nominations. Young won his second WGA Award for the mini-series, '' A Rumor of War''. He's also been honored with two
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s for the Academy Award-nominated feature film '' Testament'' starring Jane Alexander and the film ''
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'' with
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. Young's the holder of a
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, a
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as well, and his original mini-series about the
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, ''
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'', was honored with his fifth Humanitas Prize nomination and second win. He began his television work on the Emmy winning Best Drama series, ''Police Story'', and has since created, written, or executive produced five additional series and multiple mini-series and movies of the week. Young's book, ''Remains: Non-Viewable'' was a ''Los Angeles Times'' best seller. Elmore Leonard said of it: "Young writes so well his memoir works as a novel. He brings to life real people in dramatic situations, with indelible grace and the restless energy of emotions that even the passage of time cannot quell." Scott Turow wrote, "…a compelling portrait of many worlds—Yankee New England, Vietnam and Hollywood—and of high adventures, antic moments, and the cycles of love and grief. Every page is wrought with indelible grace and the restless energy of emotions that even the passage of time cannot quell." The ''LA Times'' Susan Salter Reynolds said, "Every family should be blessed by a historian as compassionate and wise as JSY." And, Steve Weinberg from The San Francisco Chronicle told his readers, "Like the rest of the memoir, the title is poignant, subtle and brilliant.... Want to study compelling prose? Read Young. Almost every sentence is perfectly crafted.... This book contains something for just about any thinking reader." In reviewing Young's first novel ''The Weather Tomorrow'', The ''New Yorker'' called him "a writer of effortless dexterity and a true, unaffected originality . . . The story he tells cuts right to the bone." ''Newsweek'' Jean Strause heralded it, "...Exceptionally fine first novel." Art Seidenbaum of the ''Los Angeles Times'' said, "This is serious, touching, original fiction." And the ''Los Angeles Herald Examiners Digby Diehl proclaimed, ""A brilliant debut by an L.A. novelist. Young is the first new voice in decades that might be compared to the young William Faulkner...What a rarity to discover a new Los Angeles writer whose control of language is precise and confident, whose sentences sparkle and glide and zoom." In 2008 Young partnered as Executive Producer with
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, Young had written ''Generations'', a pilot for TNT, which he also directed. Young published a memoir in 2016, ''Pieces of Glass: An Artoire'', reflecting on the visual arts and its relationship to his life. Artists discussed include Charles Burchfield, Winslow Homer, Richard Diebenkorn,
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,
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, and many others. In 2018, Young was honored with the prestigious Kieser Award for lifetime achievement in film and television from Humanitas Prize. On June 3, 2021, Young died after battling brain cancer for ten months.


Credits

*''Generations'' (Writer, Executive Producer, Director, 2008) *''Quarterlife'' (Director, 2008) *''The West Wing'' (Writer, Producer: 2004–2006) *
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(Writer, Executive Producer, Director, 2005) *'' King of the World'' (Writer, Director, Executive Producer: 2000) *:Adapted from David Remnick's acclaimed ''New Yorker'' article, ''King of the World'', examines the life of Cassius Clay, the man the world came to know and honor as Muhammad Ali. *''Sirens'' (Writer, Director, Executive Producer: 1999) *:A couple of cops assume a white woman making out with a black man is being raped, and they shoot to kill. The woman sets out to bring the cops to justice, but it's her word against theirs. *''Thanks of a Grateful Nation'' (Writer, Executive Producer: 1998) *:As thousands of Desert Storm vets develop medical problems, they discover the military has something to hide. Groups of servicemen and women, as well as members of Congress, join forces to uncover the truth. *''Keys'' (Writer, Director, Executive Producer: 1994) *:Police investigate the random murder/assault/child kidnapping of a seemingly average family. Marg Helgenberger, pre- ''CSI'', seeks clues to the motive behind the crime and the whereabouts of the missing child. At the same time she is haunted by her own similar tragedy. *''Romero'' (Writer, executive Producer, 1990) based on the life of the martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero (played by Raul Julia), who in 2018 will be sainted by the Catholic Church. *''A Rumor of War'' (Writer: 1980) *:Adapted from Phillip Caputo’s best-selling memoirs, the award-winning film examines the tragic loss of innocence when a young Marine lieutenant is brought up on charges for giving an order, which led to the death of several Vietnamese civilians. Found innocent, but in many respects he believed himself and maybe the war itself that he was legally innocent but morally guilty. *''China Beach'' (Co-Creator, Writer, Director, Executive Producer: 1988–1991)


Other credits

*''Orleans'' (Co-creator, executive producer, writer, director) starring
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. *''Level 9'' (Co-created by Michael Connelly, executive producer, writer, director) *''VR 5'' (Executive producer, writer, director) *''Fire on the Mountain'', MOW from a book by Edward Abbey (Writer, executive producer) starring Buddy Ebsen and Ron Howard *''Champions: A Love Story'', a ''GE Theater'' presentation (Writer, producer) *''Special Olympics'' (MOW, writer, also a book) *''Police Story'' (Writer) *''The Fitzpatricks'' (Creator, Writer, Executive Consultant)


Publications

*John Sacret Young (1981). ''The Weather Tomorrow''. Random House. . *John Sacret Young (2005). ''Remains: Non-Viewable''. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. . *John Sacret Young (2006). ''
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: The Edge of Abstraction''. New York: Meredith Ward Fine Art. * Carol Diehl, Valerie Ann Leeds,
Anita Shreve Anita Hale Shreve (1946 – March 29, 2018) was an American writer, chiefly known for her novels. One of her first published stories, '' Past the Island, Drifting'' (published in 1975), was awarded an O. Henry Prize in 1976. Early years a ...
, John Sacret Young (2007). ''
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: Essential Elements''. Lenox, MA: Hard Press Editions. . *John Sacret Young, (2016). ''Pieces of Glass: An Artoire''. Los Angeles: Tallfellow Press .


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