Stephen Longstreet (April 18, 1907 – February 20, 2002) was an American writer and artist.
Biography
Born Chauncey (later Henri) Weiner (sometimes Wiener), he was known as Stephen Longstreet from 1939. He wrote as Paul Haggard, David Ormsbee and Thomas Burton, and Longstreet, as well as his birth name.
The 1948
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musical ''
High Button Shoes
''High Button Shoes'' is a 1947 musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Sammy Cahn and book by George Abbott and Stephen Longstreet. It was based on the semi-autobiographical 1946 novel ''The Sisters Liked Them Handsome'' by Stephen Longst ...
'' was based on Longstreet's semi-autobiographical 1946 novel, ''The Sisters Liked Them Handsome''.
Under contract at
Warner Bros
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. in the 1940s, Longstreet wrote ''
The Jolson Story
''The Jolson Story'' is a 1946 American musical biography film which purports to tell the life story of singer Al Jolson. It stars Larry Parks as Jolson, Evelyn Keyes as Julie Benson (approximating Jolson's wife, Ruby Keeler), William Demares ...
'' and ''
Stallion Road
''Stallion Road'' is a 1947 American Drama Western film directed by James V. Kern, written by Stephen Longstreet, and starring Ronald Reagan, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Peggy Knudsen, Patti Brady and Harry Davenport. It was released by Warner ...
'', based on his novel of the same name and starring
Ronald Reagan
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. He later wrote ''
The Helen Morgan Story'', and as a television writer in the 1950s and 1960s he wrote for ''
Playhouse 90
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''.
Longstreet's book, ''Nell Kimball: Her Life as an American Madam, by herself'', is a hoax biography that was partly plagiarized from the works of
Herbert Asbury
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, as was his novel ''The Wilder Shore'' from Asbury's ''The Barbary Coast''.
Longstreet's nonfiction works include ''San Francisco, '49 to '06'' and ''Chicago: 1860 to 1920'', as well as ''A Century on Wheels, The Story of Studebaker'' and a Jewish cookbook, ''The Joys of Jewish Cooking'', that he wrote with his wife and occasional collaborator, .
The world of jazz was a constant theme throughout Longstreet's life. A number of his books dealt with jazz, Including ''Jazz From A to Z: A Graphic Dictionary'', his 100th book, published in 1989.
He died on February 20, 2002.
Bibliography
;Fiction (incomplete list)
*''The Pedlocks'' (1951)
*''The Lion at Morning'' (1954)
*''The Beach House'' (1953)
*''Man of Montmartre'' (1958)
*''Geisha'' (1960)
*''Wild Harvest'' (1960)
*''Living High'' (1962)
*''Remember William Kite?''
*''Pedlock and Sons'' (1966)
*''The Young Men of Paris''
*''Pedlock Saint, Pedlock Sinner'' (1951)
*''The Last Man Comes Home'' (1942)
*''The Sisters Liked Them Handsome'' (1946)
*''The Promoters'' (1957)
*''She Walks in Beauty'' (1970)
;Plays
*''High Button Shoes, A Period comedy in Two Acts'' (1949)
;Nonfiction
*''The Boy in the Model-T'' (1956)
*''The Real Jazz, Old and New'' (1956; reprint 1969)
*''A Treasury of the World's Great Prints'' (1961)
*''The Wilder Shore; A Gala Social History of San Francisco's Sinners and Spenders, 1849-1906'' (1968)
*with Ethel Longstreet: ''A Salute to American Cooking'' (1968)
*''The Canvas Falcons: The Story of the Men and Planes of World War I'' (1970)
*''Nell Kimball: Her Life as an American Madam, by herself'' (1970) Fiction published as nonfiction.
*''We All Went to Paris: Americans in the City of Light, 1776-1971'' (1972)
*''Chicago, 1860-1919'' (1973)
*with Ethel Longstreet: ''The Joys of Jewish Cooking'' (1974)
*''Win or Lose: A Social History of Gambling in America'' (1977)
References
External links
*
Stephen Longstreet Papers Finding AidStephenLongstreet.comGoodReads.com page*
Stephen Longstreet Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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1907 births
2002 deaths
20th-century American male writers