Eric S. Hatch (October 31, 1901 - July 4, 1973) was an American writer on the staff of ''

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'' and a novelist and

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best known for his novels ''1101 Park Avenue,'' (which became the hit 1936 film, '' My Man Godfrey'') and ''The Year of the Horse'' (adapted as the 1968 Disney comedy, '' The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit'').

Biography

Born in

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, Eric was the son of May D. Hatch and her husband Frederic H. Hatch, owner of a successful

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stock brokerage firm he founded in 1888. Eric was the younger brother of biographer, Alden Hatch. Boucher and McComas praised his 1950 fantasy ''The Beautiful Bequest'', saying it had "the zestful appeal of a good novel from the lamented

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.""Recommended Reading," '' F&SF'', Summer 1950, p.107 Eric Hatch died in

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at age seventy-one.

Bibliography

* ''A Couple of Quick Ones'', 1928 * ''Romance Prescribed'', 1930 * ''Lover's Loot'', 1931 * ''Five Days'', 1933 * ''Road Show'', 1934 * ''Fly By Night'', 1935 * ''1101 Park Avenue'', also known as ''My Man Godfrey'', 1935 * ''Good Old Jack'', 1937 * ''Unexpected Uncle'', 1941 * ''Words and Music'', 1943 * ''The Unexpected Warrior'', 1947 * ''The Beautiful Bequest'', 1950 * ''Crockett's Woman'', 1951 * ''The Golden Woman'', 1952 * ''A Guide to Historic Sites in Connecticut'', 1963 * ''The Judge and the Junior Exhibitor'', 1964 * ''The Little Book of Bells'', 1964 * ''The Year of the Horse'', 1965 * ''The Colonel's Ladies'', 1968 * ''Two and Two is Six'', 1969 * ''What Goes on in Horses' Heads'', 1970

Screenplays

* 1931: '' Sidewalks of New York'' * 1936: '' My Man Godfrey'' * 1937: '' Topper'' * 1951: ''Kelly'' episode of

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* 1957: '' My Man Godfrey'' * 1968: '' The Horse in the Grey Flannel Suit''

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* 1901 births 1973 deaths 20th-century American novelists American male novelists American male screenwriters The New Yorker staff writers Novelists from New York City 20th-century American male writers Screenwriters from New York (state) 20th-century American screenwriters {{US-screen-writer-1900s-stub