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Long-time companion of screenwriter Don Bachardy.

Attended school with W.H. Auden.

His musical, "Cabaret (2018)," at the Paramount Theatre in Chicago, Illinois was nominated for a 2018 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for Large Musical or Revue Production.

Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 133, pp. 277-285. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 449-451. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.

His famous comic novel "Prater Violet" was directly inspired by his experiences as screenwriter of the 1934 film "Little Friend", his first work in films.