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(1894-1964) Playwright, journalist, novelist. Ben Hecht was born in New York City. After studying at the University of Wisconsin he moved to Chicago where he became a journalist, became friends with other aspiring Chicago writers such as Floyd Dell, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, and Carl Sandburg. He worked for the Chicago Daily news. He lived and wrote in Upper Nyack, New York, for much of his life. He wrote plays “Erik Dorn” 1921, “Front Page” 1928, “Twentieth Century” (1932), and the film screenplays “Wuthering Heights” (1939), “Spellbound” (1945), and “Notorious” (1946).
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