Sol Yurick

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Solomon Yurick (born January 18, 1925 in New York City , † January 5, 2013 there ) was an American writer .

Life

Sol Yurick was born into a Jewish working class family who was politically active. He served during the Second World War and trained as a surgical-technical assistant . He then studied at New York University , where he received a degree in literature. He worked as a social worker at the welfare until the mid-1960s before devoting himself entirely to writing.

With the novel The Warriors Yurick made his debut as a writer in 1965. The story is a combination of the anabasis Xenophons and the gang wars in New York City. Directed by Walter Hill , the story was filmed in 1979 with Michael Beck and James Remar under the same title (German: The Warriors ). In the same year the novel was also translated into German and published by Pabel Verlag. In Germany, with the appearance of the film, the novel was perceived by the news magazine Spiegel as a sociological phenomenon. He was made responsible for youth violence as an example. An implementation of the novel as a video game for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox was released in 2005.

By 1995, Yurick had published six more novels. His second novel, finished in 1966, was directed by David Hugh Jones and starring Ben Kingsley , Amy Irving and Alec Baldwin and was made into a film under the title The Confession .

Yurick died on January 5, 2013 at the age of 87 in Brooklyn , NYC of complications from lung cancer . He left behind his wife, daughter and grandchild.

Works

  • The Warriors (1965)
    • The Warriors , Pabel Verlag 1979, 160 pages
  • Done (1966)
  • The Bag (1968)
  • Someone Just Like You (1972)
  • An Island Death (1976)
  • Richard A (1981)
  • Behold Metatron, the Recording Angel (1985)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data by Sol Yurick in: Contemporary authors: a bio-bibliographical guide to current authors and their works , Volumes 21-24, by Clare D. Kinsman, Christine Nasso, Gale Research, Gale Research Co., 1975, p. 892
  2. ↑ Dear boys , Der Spiegel , July 9, 1979
  3. ↑ Brooklyn Author Sol Yurick Dies , wnyc.org
personal data
SURNAME Yurick, Sol
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yurick, Solomon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 2013
Place of death New York City