The Dictionary of Literary Biography – American Screenwriters calls him "one of the most successful screenwriters in the history of motion pictures". In the late 1920s, his co-authored, reporter-themed play, The Front Page, became a Broadway hit. In the 1910s and 1920s, Hecht became a noted journalist, foreign correspondent, and literary figure. At the age of 16, Hecht ran away to Chicago, where, in his own words, he "haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls, and bookshops". He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films. A journalist in his youth, he went on to write 35 books and some of the most entertaining screenplays and plays in America. "Ben Hecht (/hɛkt/ Febru– April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. Jacket spine stained, jacket edges rubbed with one inch by one inch chip to spine head. Hecht, Ben A Child of the Century: The Autobiography of Ben Hecht
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