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Gerold Frank (August 2, 1907 – September 17, 1998) was an American author and ghostwriter. He wrote several celebrity memoirs and was considered a pioneer of the "as told to" form of (auto)biography. His two best-known books, however, are ''The Boston Strangler'' (1966), which was adapted as the 1968 movie starring Tony Curtis and Henry Fonda, and ''An American Death'' (1972), about the assassination of Martin Luther King. ==Life== Frank was born in 1907 in Cleveland, Ohio, where his father was a tailor and owned a dress shop. He graduated from Ohio State University and moved to Greenwich Village as an aspiring poet. Later he worked for a newspaper in Cleveland. He wrote some articles published by ''The New Yorker'' and ''The Nation'' and eventually returned to New York City where he worked for ''Journal-American''.〔 Frank wrote about the lives of Eastern European Jews before the Holocaust. In 1934 he made a film about life in a Polish shtetl, featuring the lives of his parents and his wife Lilian. It included rare scenes of the Warsaw Ghetto, which Frank donated to the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research.〔 Frank was a war correspondent in the Middle East during World War II, and he collaborated with Bartley Crum on a book about the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine, ''Behind the Silken Curtain: a Personal Account of Anglo-American Diplomacy in Palestine and the Middle East'' (Simon & Schuster, 1947).〔 He wrote a biography of Judy Garland entitled ''Judy'' (1975), considered by many to be the definitive book on Garland, and co-wrote Zsa Zsa Gabor's autobiography ''Zsa Zsa Gabor: My Story'' (1960). ''I'll Cry Tomorrow'' (1954), co-written with Lillian Roth and columnist Mike Connolly, was an international bestseller, more than seven million copies in more than twenty languages. It was adapted as a 1955 movie by Frank among others and Susan Hayward was nominated for the Oscar in the starring role as Lillian Roth.〔("Lillian Roth Biography ''I'll Cry Tomorrow'' on TCM" ). Ranjan Bhaduri. ''Thaindian News''. March 4, 2010. Retrieved 2014-02-27.〕 Frank won the annual "Best Fact Crime" Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America twice, for ''The Deed'' (1963), a book about the assassination of Lord Moyne, as well as for ''The Boston Strangler'' (1966).〔("Best Fact Crime Edgar Award: Winners and Nominees" ) (). The Edgar Awards (mysterynet.com/edgars). Retrieved 2014-02-27.〕 According to Mr. Frank's son John, he wrote at least 17 books including some as a ghostwriter without credit, or with an acknowledgment alone.〔 Gerold and Lilian Frank had two children, a son and a daughter. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gerold Frank」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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