Get Your Read On ~ The Disenchanted by Budd Schulberg

Out of the Past reviews this book based on real experiences with F. Scott Fitzgerald.

schulberg_disenchanted coverBudd Schulberg was a screenwriter known for writing the screenplay of the critically acclaimed film On the Waterfront (1954). Schulberg also wrote novels including The Disenchanted which was published in 1950 and recently reprinted by University of Minnesota Press. The novel is based on the experience Schulberg had working with the troubled genius F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Producer Walter Wanger hired Budd Schulberg to assist F. Scott Fitzgerald in writing a screenplay about the Winter Carnivals at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Schulberg was a recent alumni. The movie was to be Winter Carnival (1939).

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Published in: Out of the Past
By: Raquel Stecher