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Jay Dratler (September 14, 1910- September 25, 1968) was an American screenwriter and novelist.〔"Jay Dratler, Screenwriter, Dies in Mexico" (8 Oct 1968) ''Los Angeles Times''〕〔"Jay Dratler Dies; Wrote for Screen" (October 16, 1968) ''New York Times''〕 ==Biography== Born in New York City, his mother was from Austria. After attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the late 1920s, he studied at the Sorbonne in France and the University of Vienna, becoming fluent in French and German. He returned to the United States in 1932.〔 Cashing in on his exceptional language skills on his return to the United States, he was employed as an editor by a New York publisher and translated the books ''Goya'' and ''Zeppelin'' from German to English.〔 He moved to Hollywood and become a successful screenwriter and novelist. He wrote six novels, many screenplays and more than twenty television scripts.〔 He was considered very influential during the classic era of film noir in the 1940s. He won both an Academy Award and an Edgar Allan Poe Award for ''Call Northside 777'', and was nominated for an Oscar for his writing on ''Laura''. The 1948 film ''Pitfall'' was based on Dratler's novel of the same title. Late in life, Dratler began learning Spanish and became fluent, moving to Mexico City in the sixties.〔 Dratler died of a heart attack at the British-American Hospital in Mexico City in 1968. His body was returned to New York.〔 He was survived by his widow Berenice, a daughter, and a son, Jay Dratler, Jr., who became a professor of law at the University of Akron School of Law,〔 specializing in intellectual property law.〔("Retirement celebration to honor Jay Dratler Jr." (December 1, 2009) ''The Digest'', University of Akron )〕 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「Jay Dratler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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