Charles R. Jackson

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Charles Jackson (1950)

Charles Reginald Jackson (* 6. April 1903 in Summit , New Jersey ; † 21st September 1968 in New York City ) was an American writer who mainly due to the filming of his alcoholic drama The Lost Weekend ( The Lost Weekend ) got known.

biography

Jackson, who graduated from Newark High School in 1921 , began his writing career late and made his debut with the novel The Lost Weekend (1944). Considered Jackson's best novel, this alcoholic drama was filmed in 1945, directed by Billy Wilder, with Ray Milland in the lead role. Milland embodied alcohol addiction and the search for money to satisfy the addiction so impressively that he received the Oscar for best actor in 1946 . For the release of the film rights, Jackson received $ 50,000. In the novel, Jackson, who also suffered from tuberculosis , processed his own alcohol addiction.

He later wrote four other novels with The Sunnier Side (1950) and a collection of short stories . He also wrote scripts for episodes of television series such as Merciless City .

Jackson, who had a chronic lung condition, committed suicide at the Chelsea Hotel in New York when he was 65 . Regular guest Arthur Miller later wrote in his memoirs:

It had been a long time since the power of The Lost Weekend had given him a glimpse from the amazingly high crest of the wave. He had stopped drinking now and tried to walk straight on until the line became so terribly narrow that he gave it up and fell into a relieving sleep in his bed in Chelsea with a pill tube beside him. He was friendliness in person - except to himself.

Works

  • The Lost Weekend (1944)
  • The Fall of Valor (1946)
  • The Outer Edges (1948)
  • The Sunnier Side: Twelve Arcadian Tales (1950)
  • Earthly Creatures (1953)
  • A Second-Hand Life (1967)
    • Life in the shadow of the night . Novel. German by Julius Herrmann. Rütten and Loening, Munich 1968; Heyne, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-453-00399-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arthur Miller: time curves , Frankfurt 1989, p 677th

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personal data
SURNAME Jackson, Charles R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jackson, Charles Reginald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Summit , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1968
Place of death New York City