Stephen Longstreet

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Stephen Longstreet , a native of Henri Weiner (born April 18, 1907 in New York City , † February 20, 2002 in Century City , Los Angeles , California ) was an American writer , screenwriter and illustrator . Longstreet also published under the pseudonyms Paul Haggard, Henri Weiner, David Ormsbee and Thomas Burton.

Life

Stephen Longstreet grew up in New Brunswick , New Jersey . At the age of 11 he met the footballer and later jazz singer Paul Robeson . Longstreet often helped Robeson exercise, while Robeson taught him music. He later studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art . At that time he frequently drew the musicians in Greenwich Village and the Cotton Club in Harlem . At the end of the 1920s he moved to Paris , where he continued his studies and met artists such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse . He also met and drew James Joyce and Gertrude Stein and other Americans there. On his return to the United States, Longstreet moved to New Orleans , where he returned to jazz, drawing musicians such as Count Basie , Sarah Vaughan , Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington . He made collages, watercolor and ink drawings that have been exhibited over the years in various museums and galleries, including the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC

With the difficulties of making a living during the Great Depression , Longstreet began writing crime stories under various pseudonyms from the mid-1930s. He also wrote radio plays, film and book reviews. During the 1940s he worked as a screenwriter for Warner Bros. , writing the books for films such as Uncle Harry's Strange Affair , The Jazz Singer, and A Life in Rush . He also wrote the book for the successful musical High Button Shoes in 1947 . By the early 1990s, he wrote over 100 books, often novels, occasionally also non-fiction books on jazz and history, as well as two cookbooks with his wife Ethel. He often illustrated his books himself. Occasionally, several of his novels were made into films and published in German.

Longstreet died on February 20 at the age of 94 of pneumonia and heart failure . He was married to Ethel Joan Godoff from April 22, 1935 until her death on March 15, 1999. They had a son and a daughter together. When he died, he left five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Work (selection)

Books

As Stephen Longstreet
  • Last man around the world (1941)
  • The Golden Touch (1941)
  • Last man comes home; American travel journals, 1941-1942. of Stephen Longstreet (1942)
  • The Gay Sisters (1942)
  • The Land I live (1943)
  • Nine lives with grandfather; the times and turmoils of an early American, by his grandson (1944)
  • Stallion road (1945)
  • The Sisters liked them handsome (1946)
  • Three days (1947)
  • The Crystal Girl (1948)
  • High button shoes, a period comedy in two acts (1949)
  • The Pedlocks, a family (1951)
  • A Century on Wheels (1952)
  • The Beach house (1952)
  • Two Beds for Roxane (1952)
  • The World revisited, a travel book with drawings (1953)
  • The Lion at morning, a novel (1954)
    • Above the stream, the stars , Vienna 1956, 670 pages, translation by Ernst Doblhofer
  • Real jazz, old and new (1956)
  • The Boy in the Model-T; a journey in the just gone past. With line drawings by the author (1956)
  • The Promoters; a modern novel (1957)
  • Man of Montmartre; a novel based on the life of Maurice Utrillo (1958)
    • Montmartre: A Utrillo novel , Gütersloh 1958, 335 pages, translation by Heinz Kotthaus
  • Never look back, the autobiography of a jockey (1958, together with Billy Pearson )
  • The Burning man (1958)
  • The Crime (1959)
  • The Politician (1959)
  • Geisha (1960)
  • A Treasury of the world's great prints; a collection of the best-known woodcuts, etchings (1961)
  • Eagles where I walk (1961)
  • Gettysburg (1961)
  • The Flesh peddlers (1962)
  • A few painted feathers (1963)
  • The Golden runaways (1964)
  • The Nylon Island (1964)
  • Sportin 'house; a history of the New Orleans sinners and the birth of jazz (1965)
  • Was in the golden weather (1965)
  • Pedlock & Sons (1966)
  • Remember William Kite? (1966, with JJ Godoff )
  • Masts to spear the stars (1967)
  • Young men of Paris (1967)
    • The glowing colors of life: Modigliani and the world of Paris , Hamburg 1968, 295 pages, translation by John Wagner
  • A Salute to American cooking (1968)
  • Senator Silverthorn (1968)
  • The Wilder Shore; a gala social history of San Francisco's sinners and spenders, 1849-190 (1968)
  • Pedlock saint, Pedlock sinner (1969)
  • Real jazz, old and new (1969)
  • A Century on Wheels; the story of Studebaker, a history, 1852-1952 (1970)
  • She walks in beauty (1970)
  • The canvas falcons; the story of the men and the planes of World War I. (1970)
  • Was cries on horseback; the story of the Indian wars of the Great Plains. (1970)
  • Yoshiwara: city of the senses, by Stephen and Ethel Longstreet. (1970)
  • The Pedlock inheritance (1972)
  • We all went to Paris; Americans in the City of Light, 1776-1971 (1972)
  • Chicago, 1860-1919 (1973)
  • Joys of Jewish cooking (1973)
  • The Divorce (1974)
  • The General (1974)
  • Stribling (1974)
  • City on two rivers: profiles of New York - yesterday and today (1975)
  • The Kingston Fortune (1975)
  • God and Sarah Pedlock (1976)
  • The Bank (1976)
  • Die Bank , Munich 1980, 447 pages, translation by Gretl Friedmann , ISBN 3-7951-0622-2
  • All star cast: an anecdotal history of Los Angeles (1977)
  • Strike the Bell Boldly (1977)
  • Win or lose: a social history of gambling in America (1977)
  • Win or Lose: What you Shoulld know about the ERA (1977)
  • Ambassador (1978)
    • The hour of wrath , Munich 1978, 351 pages, translation by Karl-Otto u. Friederike von Czernicki, ISBN 3-7951-0443-2
  • Pedlocks in love (1978)
  • Straw Boss (1978)
  • Queen bees: the women who shaped America (1979)
  • Storm watch (1979)
  • The Dream Seekers (1979)
  • Pembroke colors (1981)
  • Wheel of Fortune (1981)
  • All or nothing (1983)
  • Delilah's Fortune (1984)
  • Our father's house (1985)
  • Storyville to Harlem: fifty years in the jazz scene (1986)
  • Last man comes home: American travel journals, 1941-1942 (1987)
  • Sons and daughters (1987)
  • The Pedlocks (1987)
  • Yoshiwara: the pleasure quarters of old Tokyo (1988)
  • Jazz from A to Z: a ​​graphic dictionary (1989)
  • Magic Trumpets: The Story of Jazz for Young People: The Story of Jazz for Young People (1989)
  • Jazz Solos: Poems and Images (1991)
  • Lower than angels: A memoir of War and Peace (1993)
As Henri Weiner
  • Crime on the Cuff (1936)
  • The Case of the Severed Skull (1939)
As Paul Haggard
  • Dead is the door-nail (1937)
  • Death talks shop (1938)
  • Death walks on cat feet (1938)
  • Poison from a wealthy widow (1938)
As Thomas Burton
  • And so dedicated; an American novel (1940)
  • Bloodbird, a novel (1941)
As David Ormsbee
  • Sound of an American (1942)
  • Chico goes to the wars; a chronicle ... 1933-1943 (1943)

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Denis McLellan: Stephen Longstreet, 94; Jazz Artist, Writer of 100 Books , latimes, February 22, 2002
personal data
SURNAME Longstreet, Stephen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weiner, Henri (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer, screenwriter, and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , United States
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 2002
Place of death Century City , Los Angeles , California, United States