Tag: The Newberry

• Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures

  

                When we think of Ben Hecht—and really, how many of us do? it’s because the college drop-out, turned Chicago Daily News reporter and then screenwriter personifies the early part of the 19th century. He was a war and crime journalist who went beyond writing and instead helped solve murder cases, along with the help…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  February 18, 2019

  Biography, Book signings, Chicago, Newberry Library, Yale University Press

  Ben Hecht, Biography, The Newberry