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Richard G. Hubler born Richard Gibson Hubler 20 August 1912 in Dunmore, Pennsylvania died 21 October 1981 of Parkinson's disease in Ojai, California was a prolific American author of biographies, fiction and non-fiction. His most well known work was as the co-author of Ronald Reagan's 1965 autobiography ''Where's the Rest of Me?''. ==Biography== Hubler attended Wyoming Seminary then graduated from Swarthmore College in 1934.〔p. 219 Warfel, Harry Redcay ''American Novelists of Today'' 1951 American Book Company〕 Hubler began writing for many magazines. In 1941 he wrote his first biography ''Lou Gehrig the Iron Horse of Baseball'' followed by ''I Flew for China'' in 1942; a biography of Royal Leonard, Chiang Kai-Shek's personal pilot. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in December 1942. He served for three years in the Corps obtaining the rank of Captain. He wrote many articles for the Marine Corps Gazette one of which criticised the American military's awarding of decorations ''Winning Medals and Alienating People''.〔()〕 Hubler also published a World War II history of Marine Aviation ''Flying Leathernecks: The Complete History of Marine Corps Aviation 1941-1944'' in 1944. After the war, Hubler used his Marine experience as inspiration for his first novel published in 1946 ''I've Got Mine'' that was filmed as ''Beachhead'' in 1954. It was republished as ''Walk Into Hell'' in 1963. Hubler became a Hollywood Scriptwriter with a screenplay based on Jim Corbett's ''Man-Eaters of Kumaon''. This led him to be signed as a scriptwriter for Belsam Productions to write a trio of films for Tom Conway. In addition to Reagan's autobiography, he also wrote ''SAC: The Strategic Air Command'' (1958), ''St. Louis Woman'' with Helen Traubel (1959), ''Big Eight: A Biography of an Airplane'' (1960) ''Straight Up: The Story of Vertical Flight'' (1961) and ''The Cole Porter Story as told to Richard G. Hubler'' (1965). In February 1954 he had a piece entitled ''Dogs Are Dumb'' published in ''Coronet'' magazine, relating the lack of intelligence in dogs. He quickly became deluged by irate dog-owners' correspondence and can be heard making an apologetic appearance on the 19th May 1954 edition of You Bet Your Life defending his opinion and stating that he owned a dog himself. Hubler was commissioned by Walt Disney Productions and the Disney family to prepare a biography of Walt Disney shortly after Disney's death, which he researched and wrote during 1967-1968. Upon submission he was paid a contractual penalty and the manuscript never saw print. "No comments, no reasons, no nothing at all", Hubler stated to animation historian Michael Barrier as to why it remained unpublished.〔Barrier, Michael. ''The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney''. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. p.XI〕 Animation historian Wade Sampson notes when Bob Thomas some years later was engaged to write what became ''Walt Disney: An American Original'', Disney executives explained that "two other writers had tried their hand at writing the official biography but both of the attempts had proven unsatisfactory." 〔(The Best Walt Disney Biographies )〕 A number of the interviews Hubler conducted on Disney have been published in the book series ''Walt's People'' edited by Dider Ghez.〔(Walt's People, Volume 8 )〕 Hubler's papers are held by the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University. This includes the manuscript of the unpublished Disney biography and much material from its preparation. Many of the interview transcripts are also held by the Disney Archives. 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「Richard G. Hubler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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