Terry Southern
Terry Southern
Terry Southernwas an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to Beat writers in Greenwich Village, Southern was also at the center of Swinging London in the 1960s and helped to change the style and substance of American films in the 1970s. In the 1980s he wrote for Saturday Night Live and lectured on screenwriting at several universities in New York...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 May 1924
CityAlvarado, TX
CountryUnited States of America
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I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.
After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.
It's frustrating not to have more control over your material.