Charles Einstein | |
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Boston,
Massachusetts, U.S. | August 2, 1926
Died | March 7, 2007
Michigan City, Indiana, U.S. | (aged 80)
Occupation(s) | Journalist, novelist, editor, screenwriter |
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Charles Einstein (August 2, 1926 – March 7, 2007) was a newspaperman and sportswriter. He was the author of the 1953 novel The Bloody Spur, on which the film While the City Sleeps (1956), directed by Fritz Lang, was based. [1] Einstein's father was the comedian Harry Einstein. [2] He was the older half-brother of comedic actors Albert Brooks and Bob Einstein, better known by his stage name " Super Dave Osborne". [3]
A Flag for San Francisco, Simon and Schuster, Inc, 1962, J. Lowell Pratt and Company, pb, 1963
Einstein was also the editor of a series of compilations of baseball writings, titled The Fireside Book of Baseball.
Einstein was referenced in Ariel Pink's 2014 song ,"Lipstick." The song was inspired by the Lipstick Killer, which Einstein wrote about in his 1953 novel The Bloody Spur.
The Bloody Spur... an unusually long, but tightly knit supense novel with an ambitious and well-handled problem in construction.