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Caryl Ledner
Caryl Ledner (née Caryl Betty Goldsmith;"California, County Marriages, 1850-1953", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8VD-7BN : 18 August 2022), Gerald Andrew Ledner and Caryl Betty Goldsmith, 1939. March 22, 1921 – March 31, 1984) was an American television scriptwriter and story editor, novelist and biographer, best known for her Emmy-winning script for the 1977 made-for-TV film '' Mary White''. Early life and career Born in Chicago, Illinois, Ledner was of German-Jewish descent, the only child of Sidney J. Goldsmith and Jessie Rothschild. By 1925 at the latest, it appears that the family had moved to New York City. However, by no later than October 26, 1939, the date of her first and only wedding, the then 18-year-old Ledner and her family had relocated to the west coast, as she and her husband initially lived with her parents in Los Angeles. It appears that by no later than 1948, more than two decades prior to the first work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago
Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of United States cities by population, third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. As the county seat, seat of Cook County, Illinois, Cook County, the List of the most populous counties in the United States, second-most populous county in the U.S., Chicago is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area, often colloquially called "Chicagoland" and home to 9.6 million residents. Located on the shore of Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a Chicago Portage, portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, Mississippi River watershed. It grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Dolan
Harry Dolan (November 5, 1927 – September 7, 1981) was a writer for and the director of the Watts Writers Workshop created by Budd Schulberg. He started off as a janitor and became one of the most serious African American writers of his time. Through his contributions and efforts in the Watts Writers’ Workshop he raised awareness in the United States' racial conflict during the 1960s. Early life and education Harry Dolan was born in Pittsburgh and attended Pittsburgh High and Carnegie Tech. Studying to be an architect, he failed because he "couldn't make those curvatures," he said once. During his seven years in the Coast Guard that followed, he had ample time to satisfy his appetite for reading books and "all kinds of writing." After his discharge, he worked as fiction editor of ''The Boston Sun''. Leaving the East for California with his family in 1962, he found a position as a janitor at the Los Angeles City Hall, another job that left his mind free for reading and wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
