David Goodis
American novelist, David Loeb Goodis was born the March 2nd 1917, with Philadelphia where he died the January 7th 1967.
After journalistic studies, finished in 1938, David Goodis become author in the American “pulps”. He publishes its first book Retour to the life , (Retreat from Oblivion) in 1938, and settles with New York. He obtains success in 1946 with his book Cauchemar . The adaptation of this book in 1947, under the title the Passengers of the night with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, is worth to him to be committed by the Warner Bros as scenario writer with Hollywood. Of return to Philadelphia in 1950, it deals of his/her parents and his brother, then dark in alcohol.
Forgotten in his native land, David Goodis owes his success in France with the adaptation of several of his books to the cinema, in particular of Tirez on the pianist by François Truffaut in 1960, of which it is the second feature film.
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