Richard Condon

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Richard Thomas Condon (March 18, 1915 in New York City – April 9, 1996 in Dallas, Texas) was a prolific and influential American political novelist.

Despite the fact that his works were satire, they were largely turned into thrillers or semi-thrillers in other media, such as cinema.

All 26 books were written in a characteristic Condon style, which mixed a fast pace, indignation, and a slew of comedic humor while still focusing almost exclusively on monetary envy and political corruption.

"Every book I've ever written has been about abuse of power," Condon said.

I'm really keen on this.

People need to know how badly their politicians wrong them, and I want them to know how deeply their politicians wrong them." Condon's books were occasionally best-selling books, and a few of his books were turned into films; he is best remembered for his 1959 debut The Manchurian Candidate and a series of four novels about a family of New York gangsters named Prizzi. Condon's books were known for their layered plotting, obsession with trivia, and shaming of those in power; at least two of his books had thinly disguised Richard Nixon versions.

Obsessions, usually sexual or political, fuel his characters, as well as family allegiance.

His plots often have elements of classical tragedy, with protagonists whose pride leading them to destruction of what they love.

Some of his books, most notably Mile High (1969), are perhaps best described as "unknown history."

And Then We Moved to Rossenarra is a humular autobiographical retelling of many places in the United States where he grew up and his family's 1970s relocation to Rossenarra, Colorado.

Kilkenny, Ireland, is a fictional place.

Early life

Condon, who was born in New York City, attended DeWitt Clinton High School.

Condon, a Hollywood publicist, ad writer, and Hollywood agent after serving in the United States Merchant Marine, had moderate success as a Hollywood publicist, script writer, and Hollywood agent. In 1957, Condon began writing. He was fired by United Artists as an ad writer and wanted to write a book. Max E. Youngstein, Condon's uncle, withdrew money from his paycheck and fired him after a year, resuming the amount of money he had deducted in the form of a Mexican bank account and the main to a house overlooking the ocean in Mexico. Youngstein encouraged him to write his book. Manchurian Candidate (1959), his second book, was dedicated to Youngstein and was turned into a hit film.

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Career in films

For many years a Hollywood publicity man for Walt Disney and other studios, Condon took up writing relatively late in life and his first novel, The Oldest Confession, was not published until he was 43. The demands of his career with United Artists—promoting movies such as The Pride and the Passion and The King and Four Queens—led to a series of bleeding ulcers and a determination to do something else.

His next book, The Manchurian Candidate, combined all the elements that defined his works for the next 30 years: nefarious conspiracies, satire, black humor, outrage at political and financial corruption in the American scene, breath-taking elements from thrillers and spy fiction, horrific and grotesque violence, and an obsession with the minutiae of food, drink, and fast living. It quickly made him, for a few years at least, the center of a cult devoted to his works. As he rapidly produced more and more books with the same central themes, however, this following fell away and his critical reputation diminished. Still, over the next three decades Condon produced works that returned him to favor, both with the critics and the book-buying public, such as Mile High, Winter Kills, and the first of the Prizzi books, Prizzi's Honor.

Of his numerous books that were turned into Hollywood movies, The Manchurian Candidate was filmed twice. The first version, in 1962, which starred Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, and Angela Lansbury, followed the book with great fidelity, and is now highly regarded as a glimpse into the mindset of its era. Janet Maslin, writing already over two decades ago, said in The New York Times In 1996 that it was "arguably the most chilling piece of cold war paranoia ever committed to film, yet by now it has developed a kind of innocence."

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