End As A Man (play)
End as a Man may refer to: * The 1947 novel ''End as a Man'' by Calder Willingham * The 1957 film ''End as a Man'' based on that novel and better known as ''The Strange One ''The Strange One'' is a 1957 American film noir about students faced with an ethical dilemma in a military college in the Southern United States. It was directed by Jack Garfein, produced by Sam Spiegel, and was adapted from a novel and st ...

Calder Willingham
Calder Baynard Willingham Jr. (December 23, 1922 – February 19, 1995)Alex MacaulayBiographical entry of Calder Willinghamfrom the New Georgia Encyclopedia was an American novelist and screenwriter. Before the age of 30, after three novels and a collection of short stories, ''The New Yorker'' was describing Willingham as having “fathered modern black comedy,” his signature a dry, straight-faced humor, made funnier by its concealed comic intent. His work matured over six more novels, including ''Eternal Fire'' (1963), which ''Newsweek'' wrote “deserves a place among the dozen or so novels that must be mentioned if one is to speak of greatness in American fiction.” He had a significant career in cinema too, with screenplays including ''Paths of Glory'' (1957), ''One-Eyed Jacks'' (1960), ''The Graduate'' (1967) and '' Little Big Man'' (1970). Life and career Willingham was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Eleanor Churchill (Willcox) and Calder Baynard Willingham, a ...
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