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Mar 28, 2019 · Between 1910 and 1924, in his fantastically eventful years as a Chicagoan, Ben Hecht wrote enough for an entire career. And he was just getting started. He worked for two newspapers (the Chicago Da…
1894 – Ben Hecht is born in New York City to Russian-Jewish immigrants Sarah Swernofsky and Joseph Hecht; 1910 – Hecht graduates high school in Wisconsin at 16 and runs away to Chicago and becomes a journalist 1914 – 1925 – Hecht worked for the Chicago Daily News, and was the author of a daily column on the world war. After the ...
Feb 12, 2019 · Ben Hecht was an extraordinary character and talent--journalist, novelist, playwright, film screenwriter, director, script doctor, and active Zionist, among other things. This biography, though relatively brief, manages to do him full justice.
New York City native Ben Hecht was born on Feb. 28, 1894, but spent his formative years in Racine, WI. At age 16, he relocated to Chicago, IL and was hired on as a reporter at the Chicago Journal, where he proved to be among the most resourceful and determined young writers in the city.
Mar 15, 2019 · Ben Hecht had seen his share of death-row psychopaths, crooked ward bosses, and Capone gun thugs by the time he had come of age as a crime reporter in gangland Chicago. His grim experience with what he called “the soul of man” gave him a kind of uncanny foresight a decade later, when a loose cannon named Adolf Hitler began to rise to power in central Europe.
Ben Hecht was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. A journalist in his youth, he went on to write 35 books and some of the most entertaining screenplays and plays in America. He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films.
Ben Hecht left the University of Wisconsin for Chicago in 1910 and became a newspaper reporter. His reporting trained him to capture a story, and how to observe what was happening in the world. In his early career as a reporter and a partner in the Grady Rutledge publicity firm, Hecht played a major role in organizing campaigns against the Ku Klux Klan in the early 1920s.
