Budd Schulberg
Budd Schulberg’s career as a novelist began with the meteoric success of What Makes Sammy Run? Among his other novels are Waterfront, The Harder They Fall, Sanctuary V, and The Disenchanted, which Anthony Burgess included in his New York Times list of “The Ninety-nine Best Novels of the Twentieth Century.”
Schulberg won an Oscar for his screenplay On the Waterfront, several awards for his film A Face in the Crowd, and a Tony nomination for his Broadway adaptation of The Disenchanted. He attributes his ability to adapt his own work to stage or screen to his upbringing in Hollywood, where his father ran a major motion-picture studio.
After publishing a new collection of short stories, Love, Action, Laughter and Other Sad Tales (Random House, 1991), Schulberg completed a screenplay of What Makes Sammy Run? for Warner Brothers, following the Random House publication of the anniversary edition of his celebrated novel.