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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, DJ-Anonyme@... wrote:
>
> I was flipping through the bibliography of Jabari
Asim's new book, The N
> Word, when I saw The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow by
Richard Wormser. I
> wondered if this could possibly be the same Wormser
who wrote for Gold
> Medal. Turns out it is. Along with being an Edgar
award winning
> novelist, he's a very well respected maker of
documentaries, the first
> of which was about Allen Pinkerton. He's also
written books to go with
> some of his films. Has anyone read his biography of
Pinkerton? Jim?
> How is it?
>
> Anyway, here's an interesting, short bio of Wormser
for anyone who's
> interested;
>
>
www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/LitMap/bios/Wormser__Richard.html
>
> Mark
>
Mark
That bio is in error. There are two Richard Wormser's, and
the author of this piece has managed to include one book
written by "our" Wormser with the other one she is writing
about. From IMDB, the bio page for Wormser I:
Winner of the 1960 and 1971 Spur Awards of the Western
Writers of America for Best Juvenile. Editor at and writer
for the famous pulp publishing house, Street & Smith, in
early career. In the late 1930s moved to California to be a
rancher; in the early 1940s served as a mounted patrolman
with the U.S. Forest Service in the Palomar Ranger District
and the Cleveland National Forest; in the late 1940s a movie
scriptwriter. He and his wife also had homes in Arizona and
New Mexico. He should not be confused with the former
newspaper reporter, writer/producer/director and teacher of
film and video production courses, Richard Wormser (b. 22
November 1933) who wrote "Growing up in the Great
Depression."
I have wondered about it, but so far I have found no
indication that the two men are related.
Best
Steve
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