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Thomas Berger (Thomas Louis Berger) was born on 20 July, 1924 in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S., is an American writer (1924–2014). Discover Thomas Berger's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 90 years old?

Popular As Thomas Louis Berger
Occupation Novelist
Age 90 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 20 July 1924
Birthday 20 July
Birthplace Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Date of death 13 July, 2014
Died Place Nyack, New York, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1924

Thomas Louis Berger (July 20, 1924 – July 13, 2014) was an American novelist.

Probably best known for his picaresque novel Little Big Man and the subsequent film by Arthur Penn, Berger explored and manipulated many genres of fiction throughout his career, including the crime novel, the hard-boiled detective story, science fiction, the utopian novel, plus re-workings of classical mythology, Arthurian legend, and the survival adventure.

Berger's biting wit led many reviewers to refer to him as a satirist or "comic" novelist, descriptions he preferred to reject.

His admirers often bemoaned that his talent and achievement were underappreciated, in view of his versatility across many forms of fiction, his precise use of language, and his probing intelligence.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Thomas Berger grew up in the nearby community of Lockland.

1943

He interrupted his college career to enlist in the United States Army in 1943.

1948

On his return, he studied at the University of Cincinnati, receiving a B.A. in 1948.

He then pursued graduate work in English at Columbia University, leaving his thesis unfinished to enroll in the writer's workshop at the New School for Social Research.

Berger resided in New York City from 1948 to 1953, and lived the next twelve years in a town on the Hudson River.

In subsequent years, he lived in London, Malibu, California, New York City again, Long Island, and then Mount Desert Island in Maine, before once more returning to the banks of the Hudson.

1950

Here Berger met and married an artist, Jeanne Redpath, in 1950.

He supported himself during this time by working as a librarian at the Rand School of Social Science, and was briefly on staff at the New York Times Index.

Berger later became a copy editor at Popular Science Monthly, and performed freelance editing during the early years of his writing career.

1958

Berger served in Europe during World War II and was stationed with a medical unit in the first U.S. Occupation Forces in Berlin, experiences which later provided him with background for his first novel, Crazy in Berlin, published in 1958.

1962

Berger received a Dial fellowship in 1962.

1964

Eventually, Berger was able to devote himself to writing full-time, particularly after the notoriety gained by his third book, Little Big Man, in 1964.

Although he would occasionally put his hand to a short story, play, or non-fiction article (including a stint as film critic for Esquire), Berger preferred the long narrative form of the novel, and produced a steady run of critically acclaimed books throughout his career.

Berger may be best known for Little Big Man, the movie made from his 1964 novel.

1965

In 1965, he received a Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award, National Institute of Arts and Letters, and a Western Heritage Award, both for Little Big Man.

1970

Released in 1970, it was directed by Arthur Penn, and starred Dustin Hoffman and Faye Dunaway.

His play Other People was produced at the Berkshire Theatre Festival in 1970.

1974

In 1974, Berger was a writer in residence at the University of Kansas, and a distinguished visiting professor at Southampton College in 1975–1976.

1981

He lectured at Yale University in 1981 and 1982, and was a Regents' Lecturer at the University of California, Davis, in 1982.

A collection of his papers is available at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.

Neighbors, with John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd and Cathy Moriarty, was released in 1981.

Berger's radio play At the Dentist's was broadcast by Vermont Public Radio in 1981.

1984

In 1984 his book The Feud was nominated by the Pulitzer committee for fiction for the Pulitzer Prize, but the Pulitzer board overrode their recommendation and instead chose William Kennedy's Ironweed.

Reinhart's Women won Berger an Ohioana Book Award, and he was a 1984 Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Feud.

1986

Long Island University awarded Berger a Litt. D. in 1986.

1989

Bill D'Elia produced and directed a film adaptation of The Feud in 1989.

1992

A film version of the 1992 novel Meeting Evil, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Luke Wilson, was filmed in 2011, and was released to theaters in the United States in May 2012.

2014

He died on July 13, 2014, seven days before his 90th birthday.