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Michael Sayers
MICHAEL SAYERS (December 19, 1911 - May 2, 2010) was a poet, author, screen writer, and journalist. He was one of the pioneers of live drama on American network television. Together with Albert E. ...view moreMICHAEL SAYERS (December 19, 1911 - May 2, 2010) was a poet, author, screen writer, and journalist. He was one of the pioneers of live drama on American network television. Together with Albert E. Kahn he edited The Hour, a confidential newsletter devoted to exposing fifth-column activities, and co-authored the books Sabotage! The Secret War Against America (1942) and The Great Conspiracy: The Secret War Against Soviet Russia (1946). Born in Dublin, Ireland to Lithuanian-Jewish parents, he attended Trinity College Dublin, studying French under Samuel Beckett. He left for London, where he shared a flat with George Orwell, and became a rising star in the literary world, contributing short stories that were included in Best British Short Stories for three successive years from 1935, and reviews to The New English Weekly. He later lived in New York and France, and worked mainly for television, under assumed names, writing scripts for such series as Robin Hood, Ivanhoe and The Avengers. He wrote the final script for Casino Royale (1967) and acted as creative consultant on other James Bond films. With Michael Butler he wrote the first screenplay for the musical Hair (1979). He also published poems and stories in the prestigious literary journal Botteghe Oscura. Sayers died in 2010, aged 98.
ALBERT EUGENE KAHN (May 11, 1912 - September 15, 1979) was an American journalist, photographer, author and nephew of modernist industrial architect Albert Kahn. Born in London, England into an affluent politically conservative Jewish family, he was educated in the United States, where he attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Dartmouth College. He graduated Dartmouth Class Poet in 1932 and, after marrying in 1934, moved to California, where he became executive secretary of the American Council Against Nazi Propaganda, all well as co-editor of The Hour and co-author of several political books with Michael Sayers. He died in 1979, aged 67.view less