Morton Thompson (c. 1907 – July 7, 1953) was an American writer of newspaper journalism, novels and film screenplays.

Career

Amongst his works were a collection of journalistic memoirs called ''Joe, the Wounded Tennis Player'', and the novels '' Not as a Stranger'' (which was turned into a film directed by

Stanley Kramer Stanley Earl Kramer (September 29, 1913February 19, 2001) was an American film director and producer, responsible for making many of Hollywood's most famous " message films" (he would call his movies ''heavy dramas'') and a liberal movie icon.

) and '' The Cry and the Covenant''. He had a column in the ''

Hollywood Citizen-News Community newspapers in Hollywood, California, have included the ''Hollywood Sentinel'' (1903 or before-1911), ''Hollywood Inquirer'' (unknown-1914), ''Hollywood Citizen'' (1905–1931), ''Hollywood News,'' (unknown-1931), and ''Hollywood Citizen- ...

'' which he signed "N.N.W.," explaining that the initials came from a Shakespeare line, "I am but mad when the wind is North North West."

Personal life

He was a friend of the writer

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. His second wife, Frances Pindyck, a literary agent with the Leland Hayward Agency, represented

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and

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, among others.

Thompson's Turkey

He was also the inventor of the

recipe A recipe is a set of instructions that describes how to prepare or make something, especially a dish of prepared food. A sub-recipe or subrecipe is a recipe for an ingredient that will be called for in the instructions for the main recipe. Hist ...

, ''Thompson Turkey''.

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Career

Personal life

Thompson's Turkey

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