Clair Huffaker

Clair Huffaker
Huffaker in 1973
Born(1926-09-26)September 26, 1926
Magna, Utah, U.S.
DiedApril 3, 1990(1990-04-03) (aged 63)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
OccupationsScreenwriter, author

Clair Huffaker (September 26, 1926 – April 3, 1990) was an American screenwriter and author of westerns and other fiction, many of which were turned into films.

Biography

Born in Magna, Utah, Huffaker wrote of his childhood in One Time I Saw Morning Come Home. He attended Princeton and Columbia universities and the Sorbonne in Paris. He served in the United States Navy in World War II and then studied in Europe before returning to America. After the war, he worked in Chicago as an assistant editor for Time before turning to fiction.

Novels

Screenplays

Clair Huffaker also wrote scripts for television and was one of the writers on the Warner Brothers Western series Lawman

References

  1. ↑ "Cliff Huffaker". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-03-30.
  2. 1 2 "Clair Huffaker; Wrote Western Books, Scripts". Los Angeles Times. 6 April 1990. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  3. ↑ Scheuer, Philip K. (Aug 13, 1967). "The One-Man Revolt in Hollywood". Los Angeles Times. p. c14.
  4. ↑ "Clair Huffaker". Fantasticfiction.com. Retrieved 29 August 2020.