Richard P. Powell

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Richard Pitts Powell (born November 28, 1908 in Philadelphia , † December 8, 1999 in Fort Myers ) was an American writer .

Life

Richard P. Powell graduated from Princeton University in 1930 and then worked for the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger . After ten years he moved to an advertising agency NW Ayer & Son. After participating in the Second World War on General Douglas MacArthur's staff, Powell returned to NW Ayer, where he rose to Vice-President of the Information Service in 1952.

Powell began writing fiction in the 1940s . From 1958 he was able to devote himself entirely to writing. His first published books he wrote for the popular American radio show Inner Sanctum Mysteries between 1943 and 1955. With the release of the man from Philadelphia ( The Philadelphian ) in 1956, he became known to a wide audience. The book became a bestseller, filmed in 1959 under the title The Young Philadelphians ( The Young Philadelphians ) with Paul Newman . In 1959 he had another bestseller, the cheerful novel Die Kwimpers ( Pioneer Go Home ), which was filmed in 1962 with Elvis Presley under the title A Summer in Florida ( Follow That Dream ). Devilish games ( tickets to the Devil ) 1968 is an outlook on the world of Bridge of about 1960. The main characters in this short story based in part on big players this time and take along with the fictitious Powell people at a national tournament in the USA part. Richard Powell died in Fort Myers , Florida in 1999 .

Books

His books are listed below, sorted by year of publication in the United States:

  • Don't Catch Me (1943)
  • All Over But the Shooting (1944)
  • Lay that Pistol Down (1945)
  • Shoot if You Must (1946)
  • On honor and conscience, Rüschlikon, Zurich, 1958 ( And Hope to Die , 1947)
  • Shark River ( Shark River , 1949)
  • Das Muschelspiel ( Shell Game , 1950; published again in 2008 together with A Shot in the Dark , ISBN 1933586184 )
  • A Shot in the Dark (1952; republished in 2008 with Shell Game , ISBN 1933586184 )
  • Let bullets do the talking ( Say It With Bullets , 1953; 2006, Dorchester Publishing Hard Case Crime, ISBN 0843955899 )
  • Wrong colors ( False Colors , 1955)
  • The Man from Philadelphia, 1958, Kiepenheuer § Witsch, ISBN 3-462-01079-4 ( The Philadelphian , 1956; 2006, Plexus Publishing , ISBN 0937548626 )
  • The Kwimpers, translation by Walter Hasenclever . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1993, ISBN 3-462-01553-2 ( Pioneer, Go Home , 1959, ISBN 0891760083 )
  • The Soldier, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1963, ( The Soldier , 1960)
  • I Take this Land (1963)
  • Daily and Sunday (1964)
  • Pepe goes to the cash register , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1968, ( Don Quixote, USA , 1966)
  • The tournament. A bridge novel, known today as: Teuflische Spiele ISBN 3980648265 ( Tickets to the Devil , 1968, ISBN 0910791414 )
  • Whom the Gods Would Destroy (1970)

Film adaptations

The book The Man from Philadelphia ( The Philadelphian ) was filmed as The Young Philadelphians ( The Young Philadelphians ) in 1959 with Paul Newman and Barbara Rush in the leading roles. The book Die Kwimpers ( Pioneer, Go Home! ) Was made into a film in 1962 and renamed A Summer in Florida ( Follow That Dream ), with Elvis Presley playing the lead role (Toby Kwimper) . The Woody Allen film ' Bananas ' from 1971 also uses elements from Don Quixote, USA in its plot.

Others

The Internet Movie Database mistakenly attributes Powell's short stories to screenwriter Richard M. Powell.

Web links

supporting documents

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  2. ^ Hard Case Crime: About the authors
personal data
SURNAME Powell, Richard P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Powell, Richard Pitts (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1999
Place of death Fort Myers , Florida , USA