Night and the City (1938), was more successful and has been filmed twice, with Richard Widmark in 1950 and then in 1992 with Robert De Niro in the lead role (this version transposed the setting from London to New York).
Kersh, however, had not sufficiently concealed the identities of some of the characters, and a member of his family sued for libel as a result, the book was quickly withdrawn. Kersh's first novel, Jews Without Jehovah, an autobiographical tale of growing up poor and Jewish, was published in 1934. After leaving school, he worked as, amongst other things, a cinema manager, bodyguard, debt collector, fish and chip cook, travelling salesman, French teacher and all-in wrestler whilst attempting to succeed as a writer.
Gerald Kersh (26 August 1912 – 5 November 1968) was a British and later also American writer of novels and short stories.īorn in 1912, Kersh began to write at the age of eight. Mystery, horror, science fiction, fantasy, literary fiction
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