Max Wilk

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Max Wilk, is an American playwright, screenwriter and author of fiction and nonfiction books.

Formerly a resident of Ridgefield, Connecticut, he moved to Westport, Connecticut, where he now lives.

In the 1960s, he wrote the novelization of The Beatles' cartoon Yellow Submarine. His fiction includes Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River; the movie version starred Jerry Lewis and shifted the locale from "Green Haven" (based on Ridgefield) to London, England.[1]

On the original bookjacket is the warning:

While the locale of this book is Connecticut, it has nothing of importance to say about Suburbia, Exurbia, the Exploding Metropolis, or the stifling wave of Middle Class Conformity which, it is augured, will soon engulf the whole of Fairfield County.[1]

In the '90s, he published a coffee-table book tracing the origins of the musical Oklahoma! Later he wrote Schmucks with Underwoods--Conversations with Hollywood's Classic Screenwriters.[1]

Contents

[edit] Books

(in reverse chronological order)

  • The Sound of Music: The Making of Rodger and Hammerstein's Classic Musical, Routledge (2006), ISBN 0-415-97934-X
  • OK! The Story Of Oklahoma!: A Celebration of America's Most Beloved Musical, 292 pages, Applause Books; (2002) ISBN 1-55783-555-1
  • Schmucks with Underwoods: Conversations with America's Classic Screenwriters,, 338 pages, Applause Books (2004), ISBN 1-55783-508-X
  • The Golden Age of Television: Notes from the Survivors, 274 pages, Delacorte Press (1976) ISBN 0-440-02950-3(Paperback: Truck Press; 3rd edition, 1999, ISBN 0-916562-49-2)
  • Overture and Finale: Rodgers & Hammerstein and the Creation of Their Two Greatest Hits (Oklahoma! and The Sound of Music) Paperback: 192 pages, Watson-Guptill Publications (April 1999) ISBN 0-8230-8820-0
  • American Treasure Hunt: The Legacy of Israel Sack co-author, Harold Sack, 270 pages, Little Brown & Co (November 1986), ISBN 0-316-76593-7
  • Mr. Williams and Miss Wood: A two-character play, 42 pages, Dramatists Playservice (1990), ASIN: B0006EYAJW (Note: NOT an ISBN)
  • A Tough ACT to Follow, co-author, Jim Connor, 346 pages, Norton (January 1986) ISBN 0-393-02219-6(paperback, PaperJacks (1988) ISBN 0-7701-0736-2)
  • And Did You Once See Sydney Plain?: A Random Memoir of S.J. Perelman, 83 pages, Norton (1986), ISBN 0-393-02343-5
  • Get Out and Get Under,317 pages, Norton (1981), ISBN 0-393-01425-8
  • The Moving Picture Boys, 287 pages, Norton (1978), ISBN 0-393-08814-6
  • Every day's a matinee: Memoirs scribbled on a dressing room door, 288 pages,

Norton (1975) ISBN 0-393-07491-9

  • They're Playing Our Song: The Truth Behind the Words and Music of Three Generations 295 pages, Atheneum (1973), ISBN 0-689-10554-1
  • Memory lane, 1890 to 1925;: Ragtime, jazz, foxtrot and other popular music and music covers, 88 pages, Studioart (1973), ISBN 0-902063-13-8
  • The Wit and Wisdom of Hollywood: From the Squaw Man to the Hatchet Man, (compiler) Scribner (1971) ISBN 0-689-10370-0
  • The Beard, a novel, Simon and Schuster, (1965) LCCN 65-23246
  • Cloud Seven,: A comedy, 84 pages, Dramatists Play Service, (1958) ASIN: B0007E1WQK (Note: NOT an ISBN)
  • Yellow Submarine novelization (1960s)
  • Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River

[edit] Broadway plays

According to the "Internet Broadway DataBase":[2]

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c [1]"When Connecticut was Cool," by Christopher Arnott, article in the New Haven Advocate, July 29, 2004
  2. ^ [2] "Max Wilk" Web page at "Internet Broadway DataBase" accessed August 13, 2006

[edit] External links

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