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A celebrity reporter, he was also foreign correspondent (Berlin in 1919), columnist, short story writer, novelist, playwright and a co-founder of The Chicago Literary Times (1923-25). Born in New York City to Russian immigrants, Hecht spent his boyhood in Racine, Wisconsin and began his career as a journalist in Chicago. Hecht also wrote the script for the film Spectre of the Rose (1946).Ben Hecht was a jack-of-all-trades writer who became famous as the go-to script guy in Hollywood during the 1930s and '40s, from The Front Page (1931) and Scarface (1932), to Wuthering Heights (1939), Notorious (1946) and Kiss of Death (1947). In Hollywood he wrote scripts, often with MacArthur, for a number of successful motion pictures, among them The Front Page (film version 1931), The Scoundrel (1935), Nothing Sa cred (1937), Gunga Din (1938), Wuthering Heights (1939), Spellbound (1945), and Notorious (1946). He collaborated with MacArthur on another successful stage comedy, Twentieth Century (1923). Hecht later divided his time between New York City and Hollywood. Lively reminiscences of Hecht’s Chicago years are found in his Gaily, Gaily (1963 motion-picture version 1969, British title Chicago, Chicago), Letters from Bohemia (1946), and his autobiography, A Child of the Century (1954).

He was associated in Chicago with the bohemian novelist and poet Maxwell Bodenheim. He was dismissed by the Daily News after his novel Fantazius Mallare (1922) was seized by the government on obscenity charges. Love literature? This quiz sorts out the truth about beloved authors and stories, old and new.

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