Jeremy Larner
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Jeremy Larner (born March 20, 1937) is an author, poet, journalist and speechwriter.
He won an Oscar in 1972 for Best Original Screenplay, for writing The Candidate.
Education and influences
Larner graduated from Brandeis University in 1958, where he was close to Herbert Marcuse, Irving Howe, Philip Rahv, and a fellow student named Abbie Hoffman, who later, running a small bookstore in Worcester, Massachusetts, became an early champion of Larner's first novel.
Early career
In 1959, Larner earned a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship at UC Berkeley, but he dropped out of graduate school in his first year and moved to New York City at 22 years old. He remained there through the 1960s, mainly because he wrote five books during that time.
Larner was assigned by Dissent magazine in 1962 to cover the teachers' strike and spent several months in Harlem's primary school classes. His long story of what he discovered was largely dismissed after coming to the attention of Michael Harrington, author of The Other America: Poverty in the United States, which inspired John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy.
J. D. Salinger's first published piece, which was released in Partisan Review in 1961, was a criticism of J. D. Salinger. He went south again in the year to cover the lunch-counter sit-in strikes at black universities, as well as writing several pieces for The New Leader and Dissent.
In 1963, Larner edited a taped collection of interviews with heroin addicts at the Henry Street Settlement in New York. The harrowing tales shared in these interviews became the basis for one of tape's first books, The Addict in the Street, which remained in print for 20 years. Grove Press celebrated its inception in early 1965 with a party for Larner and William S. Burroughs, where Norman Mailer defeated Larner to a fight.