American screenwriter, educated at Penn State University. Often worked with the director Stanley Kramer and at Universal. Best known for Shenandoah (1965).
In the The Cheyenne Social Club (1970) a sign hung in the lobby listing the names of the girls
who worked the club. For years after the film was released, that sign
hung in his home as a memento.
Won Broadway's 1975 Tony Award, along with collaborators Peter Udell and
Philip Rose, as Best Book (Musical) for "Shenandoah," based on his script
of an earlier film of the same title, Shenandoah (1965).