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Jan 1, 2001 · Steve Tesich has grounded his story in the highly recognizable world of New York in the late-eighties, a milieu of unscrupulous West Coast producers, dry cleaning, divorce and fantasies of escape. Karoo is a haunting, highly human, deliciously realistic novel of decline, fall, and rejuvenation. 400 pages, Paperback.
Tesich writes that following the shameful truth of Watergate (1972–1974), more assuaging coverage of the Iran–Contra scandal (1985–1987) and Persian Gulf War (1990–1991) demonstrates that "we, as a free people, have freely decided that we want to live in some post-truth world."
Oct 4, 2019 · Steve Tesich won a well-deserved Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his work on Breaking Away. He went on to adapt the movie into a short-lived (1980-81) television series, wrote more screenplays (including Eyewitness [1981], Four Friends [1981], and The World According to Garp [1982]), more plays, and several novels before sadly dying of a heart attack in 1996 at the age of 53.
Steve Tesich. Writer: Breaking Away. Born in Yugoslavia, Tesich was 14 when he came to America and settled in East Chicago, Indiana. His father, a machinist, died in 1962. He graduated from Indiana University in 1965 and did graduate work at Columbia University where he began to write plays. 'Breaking Away (1979)' won Tesich an Oscar and a Golden Globe nomination. He successfully adapted 'The World According to Garp (1982)'...
I have some notes from interviews with Arthur Penn, Steve Tesich and Jodi Thelin. I had lunch with Penn and Tesich in Los Angeles, but it was a fairly chaotic occasion, with Tesich's arriving late and Penn's having to leave early, and although I wrote down a lot of quotes and facts and figures and profound insights, what I really remember is little more than a few anecdotes.
Jul 1, 1996 · Yugoslav-born Steve Tesich spoke no English when he and his mother and sister immigrated to the USA in 1957, but learning the language gave him the mechanism for responding to his adoptive country. He attended Indiana University on a wrestling scholarship, but his passion switched to cycling there, providing him the impetus for his Academy Award-winning screenplay for "Breaking Away" (19...
Apr 1, 2000 · Steve Tesich. Set in a landscape stripped bare by civil war, two “independents” forge an alliance of convenience in order to buy their way into the land of the free, the one safe haven in an otherwise lawless landscape. Hiding from marauding armies, they travel the country, gathering great art treasures from crumbling museums.
