Scott Spencer (writer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Scott Spencer (writer)

American writer

Date of Birth: 01-Sep-1945

Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Profession: screenwriter, actor, writer, reporter, journalist, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Scott Spencer (writer)

  • Scott Spencer (born September 1, 1945) is an American author who has written thirteen novels.
  • He also wrote the screenplay for the 1993 movie Father Hood.
  • Two of Spencer's novels, Endless Love and Waking the Dead, have been adapted into films.
  • Endless Love was first adapted into a motion picture by Franco Zeffirelli in 1981, and a second adaptation by Shana Feste was released in 2014.
  • Waking the Dead was produced by Jodie Foster and directed by Keith Gordon in 2000.
  • The novels Endless Love and A Ship Made of Paper have both been nominated for the National Book Award, with Endless Love selling over 2 million copies.
  • Spencer has heavily panned both film adaptations of Endless Love.Interviewed in The New York Times, Spencer once said: "It may be time for serious, literary novelists to take back some of the subject matter we abandoned to hack novelists and the movies." Joyce Carol Oates, writing about A Ship Made of Paper in The New Yorker, said: "Like Cheever, Spencer has imagined for his...
  • infatuated lover melodramatic crises that verge on the surreal; like John Updike, Spencer is a poet-celebrant of Eros, lyrically precise in his descriptions of lovers' fantasies, lovers' lovemaking, lovers' bodies..." The Wall Street Journal has said: "There are few novelists alive who use the English language as Scott Spencer does...
  • Every ache of feeling, every failed effort at restraint, every attempt at self-deception is captured in precise, beautifully cadenced prose." Spencer was born in Washington, D.C..
  • He has worked as a journalist and been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, GQ, O, The Oprah Magazine, and he is a regular contributor to Rolling Stone. He has taught at Columbia University, the University of Iowa, Williams College, Bard College's Bard Prison Initiative, and the University of Virginia.
  • Spencer attended the University of Illinois, Roosevelt University, and graduated from the University of Wisconsin.
  • In 2004, he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
  • For the past twenty years, he has lived in a small town in upstate New York. For some of his latest works, two sequenced horror novels, Spencer has chosen the pseudonym ?Chase Novak?.

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