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(1932-2020) Author. Bob Shanks was born in Sullivan, Illinois, and died in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Full Name

Bob Shanks

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline

1932

BIRTH

Robert Horton Shanks was born in Sullivan, Illinois, on October 8, 1932.

1957

RESIDENCE

Around 1957, Mr. Shanks moved to New York.

1976

LITWORK

The Cool Fire: How to Make It in Television
Norton
0393083632 / 978-0393083637
Nonfiction.

1982

LITWORK

Love Is Not Enough
W. W. Norton & Company
0393015866 / 978-0393015867
Novel.

1986

LITWORK

The Primal Screen: How to Write, Sell, and Produce Movies for Television With Complete Script of Drop-Out Father
W. W. Norton & Company
0393019934 / 978-0393019933
Nonfiction.

1989

LITWORK

S. J. Perelman in Person


One-man play performed at the Cherry Lane Theater in Manhattan, New York, in 1989.

2020

DEATH

Bob Shanks died in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on October 12, 2020.

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