Gerald Green

Gerald Green (April 8, 1922 — August 29, 2006) was an American author, journalist, producer and director. Green was born in Brooklyn, New York as Gerald Greenberg. He was the son of a physician, Dr. Samuel Greenberg. Green attended Columbia College, where he edited the Jester, starred in several Varsity Shows, and was a member of the Philolexian Society. He graduated from the college in 1942 and, after serving in the US Army in Europe during the Second World War, where he was also the editor of the army's Stars and Stripes newspaper, he returned to New York to attend the Columbia Journalism School. Green wrote many novels, the best known being The Last Angry Man, published in 1956. It was adapted into a movie by the same name which was...