Mordecai Richler biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Mordecai Richler

Author Name:

Mordecai Richler

Born As:

Other Names:

Mordecai Richler

Born:

27 Jan 1931

Died:

03 Jul 2001




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Author, scriptwriter and essayist                          
Selected works:

Fiction:

The Acrobats - 1954 - also published as Wicked We Love, July 1955
Son of a Smaller Hero - 1955
A Choice of Enemies - 1957
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - 1959
The Incomparable Atuk - 1963
Cocksure - 1968
The Street - 1969
St. Urbain's Horseman - 1971
Joshua Then and Now - 1980
Solomon Gursky Was Here - 1989
Barney's Version - 1997
[edit]Fiction for children
Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang - 1975
Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur - 1987
Jacob Two-Two's First Spy Case - 1995

Travel:

Images of Spain - 1977
This Year In Jerusalem - 1994
[edit]Essays
Hunting Tigers Under Glass: Essays and Reports - 1968
Shovelling Trouble - 1972
Notes on an Endangered Species and Others - 1974
The Great Comic Book Heroes and Other Essays - 1978
Home Sweet Home: My Canadian Album - 1984
Broadsides - 1991
Belling the Cat - 1998
Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! Requiem for a Divided Country - 1992
Dispatches from the Sporting Life - 2002
[edit]Nonfiction
On Snooker: The Game and the Characters Who Play It - 2001

Anthologies:

Canadian Writing Today - 1970
The Best of Modern Humour - 1986 - U.S. title: The Best of Modern Humor
Writers on World War II - - 1991

Film scripts:

Life at the Top - 1965 - screenplay from novel by John Braine
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - film - 1974 - Screenwriters Guild Award and Oscar screenplay nomination
The Street - 1976 - Oscar Nomination
Fun with Dick and Jane - 1977 film - with David Giler & Jerry Belson, from a story by Gerald Gaiser
The Wordsmith - TV - 1979
Joshua Then and Now - film - 1985
Barney's Version - film - 2010, in production, screenplay by Michael Konyves based on Richler novel.                          
First wife Catherine Boudreault
Second wife Florence. Mordecai adopted her son Daniel. The couple had five children.