Gerald Green (author)
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Gerald Green (April 8, 1922 — August 29, 2006) was an American author, journalist, producer and director.
Born in Brooklyn, New York as Gerald Greenberg, Green attended Columbia College, where he edited the Jester and starred in several Varsity Shows. After serving in the US Army in Europe during the Second World War and as editor of the army's Stars and Stripes newspaper, he returned to New York to attend the Columbia Journalism School.
Green has written many novels, the most well-known being The Last Angry Man, published in 1959. It was adapted into a movie by the same name which was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Paul Muni) and Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White.
His other novels include His Majesty O'Keefe with Lawrence Klingman, adopted into a 1954 film, North West, Portofino PTA, To Brooklyn With Love, My Son the Jock, and The Lotus Eaters.
He wrote the screenplay for The Holocaust, a critically acclaimed 1978 TV miniseries that won eight Emmy Awards, including one for Green for "Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series," and was credited with persuading the West German government to repeal the statute of limitations on Nazi war crimes. He later adopted the screenplay into a novel of the same name, and in recognition of this effort was awarded, in 1979, the Dag Hammarskjöld International Peace Prize for literature. Green won another Emmy nomination for his 1985 TV script for Wallenberg: A Hero's Story.
Green was also a writer, producer, and director for NBC News. With Dave Garroway he created, in 1952, NBC's The Today Show.
Green lived in Stamford, Connecticut for twenty years and moved to New Canaan, Connecticut. His first wife, Marie, died of cancer. They had three children, Nancy, Ted and David. He married Marlene Eagle in 1979. He died of pneumonia in Norwalk, Connecticut on August 29, 2006.
