Budd Schulberg

"For more than six decades, Budd Wilson Schulberg has known success in virtually every category of American writing. Raised in the Hollywood of the 1920s as the privileged son of a pioneer studio mogul, Schulberg achieved fame as a novelist, short story writer, playwright, Oscar-winning screenwriter, and boxing historian.". "Schulberg also became a central figure in the entertainment industry's political turmoil of the 1940s and 1950s, fleeing first from the Communist Party's attempts to control his writing, then testifying as a cooperating witness before the House Commitee on Un-American…