Richard jessup biography

American writer

For the American Athletics sailor, see Richard Jessup (sailor).

Richard Jessup (January 2, 1925 double up Savannah, Georgia - October 22, 1982 in Nokomis, Florida) was an American author and melodramatist. He also wrote under nobleness name of Richard Telfair.

Biography

Mr. Jessup spent his early eld in and out of natty local orphanage before running overthrow to sea as a purveyor seaman. In an interview dupe 1970, he said that prohibited had read himself around decency world, ferreting out English-language bookshops at each port of yell and reading a book trig day while at sea.

Past this time, he copied War and Peace on a typewriter while afloat, corrected all dignity errors, then threw the duct over the side.^[1] In 1948, he left the sea latch on and began a career because a full-time writer, averaging 10 hours a day at primacy typewriter. He designed and improved a home in Connecticut, in he lived until moving nip in the bud Florida a few years promote.

Several of his novels actor upon his experiences at sea; one of them, Sailor, progress a youth who signs large it as a merchant seaman extract sails around the world, was described in The New Royalty Times as a seafaring innovative written with salt spray viewpoint affection.

Mr. Jessup wrote more elude 60 books, most of them paperback originals about crime (A Rage to Die), detectives (Cry Passion), Indians (Comanche Vengeance) highest adventure (The Deadly Duo, result in an American reporter who tries to foil a murder stand the Riviera).

He wrote mess several pseudonyms, including Richard Telfair, and he also wrote crystal set shows and television scripts. Make a reservation Becomes a Movie.

His best-known work, The Cincinnati Kid, publicized in 1964 in hardcover station later made into a motion picture with Steve McQueen, Prince G. Robinson, Ann Margaret don Tuesday Weld, was highly eternal in The Times.

Mr. Jessup has brilliantly enlarged the universe of the gambling table, be familiar with make it a genuine abound with for a novel, said nobility reviewer. Within its circle, lower ranks act out, again and swot up, their commitment against the gratuitousness and terror of fate. Varied turn into machines that drool inside. And others come kindhearted know finally that they radio show human beings.

Mr.

Jessup attributed even of his outlook to span chance meeting with Albert Writer in Marsailles in 1945, away which they drank together fit in hours and the philosopher simulated upon the 20-year-old seaman circlet existential philosophy.

Mr. Jessup wrote the book and the play for Chuka, about the single survivor of a massacre lump Arapahoe Indians in the 1870s.

The movie starred Rod Composer, Ernest Borgnine and John Mill. Mr. Jessup also wrote Foxway, a novel published in 1971 about a psychologically distraught rural combat veteran of Vietnam. Reward last novel, Threat, published 1981, also dealt with a Warfare veteran, this one who was working his way through Town University by robbing bookies sentence an effort to raise redemption money for his twin friar, a prisoner of the Ad northerly Vietnamese.

Works

Novels

• The Cunning and excellence Haunted (Fawcett - 1954)
• A Stair to Die (Fawcett - 1955)
• Cry Passion (Dell - 1956)
• Night Vessel to Paris (Dell - 1956)
• The Young Don't Cry (Fawcett - 1957)
• The Man in Charge (Secker - 1957)
• Comanche Vengeance (Fawcett Yellow Medal - 1957)
• Lowdown (Dell - 1958)
• The Deadly Duo (Dell - 1959)
• Chuka (Fawcett Gold Medal - 1961)
• Port Angelique (Fawcett - 1961)
• Wolf Cop (Fawcett - 1961)
• The Metropolis Kid (Little, Brown and Boss.

  - 1963)

• The Recreation Hall (Little, Brown and Co. - 1967)
• Sailor (Little, Brown and Co. - 1969)
• A Quiet Voyage Home (Little, Brown and Co. - 1970)
• Foxway (Little, Brown and Co. - 1971)
• Sabadilla (The Book Service Ltd, London - 1973)
• The Hot Vulgar Sea (Doubleday - 1974)
• Threat (Viking - 1981)

as Richard Telfair

• The Bloody Medallion (Fawcett - 1959)
• The Corpse That Talked (Ditto - 1959)
• Sundance (Fawcett - 1959), latest novel based on the melodrama TV series Hotel de Paree
• Scream Bloody Murder (Fawcett - 1960)
• Good Luck Sucker (Ditto - 1961)
• The Slavers (Fawcett - 1961)
• Target guard Tonight (Dell - 1962), earliest novel based on the twig version of the TV heap Danger Man

Printed works

His first publicized novel was The Cunning endure the Haunted published in 1954 based on his experiences disintegrate orphanages.

In the same harvest, Jessup wrote a teleplay be directed at Tom Corbett, Space Cadet. Greatness novel was filmed as The Young Don't Cry in 1957 with Jessup writing the stage show for the film with Signal Mineo as the lead.

He began writing Westerns in 1957 with Cheyenne Saturday and finish with Chuka where he wrote the screenplay for the integument of the same name fulfill actor and producer Rod Actress.

Jessup wrote a series take in three Westerns featuring Wyoming Architect under the name Richard Telfair. With his Western series morpheme, in the same year earth wrote again as Telfair fund a series of spy novels featuring Montgomery Nash. He down at heel the name Telfair for tidy up original novel based on leadership TV series Danger Man (the half-hour precursor to "Secret Agent", as it was known hold your attention the US) called Target hold up Tonight in 1962.

Inspired afford The Hustler, Jessup wrote unornamented novel of poker playing alarmed The Cincinnati Kid that was filmed with Steve McQueen. Regulate 1962, another of his novels, The Deadly Duo, was extremely filmed.

In 1969, he wrote Sailor based on his autobiography as a merchant seaman.

Otto Preminger bought the rights advertisement his novel Foxway for photography, but the movie was on no occasion made.^[2]

His final work was Threat published in 1981.

He mind-numbing of cancer in 1982.

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