Robert Grossbach

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Robert Grossbach
Born1941 (age 8283)
Occupation
  • Writer
  • engineer
NationalityAmerican

Robert Grossbach (born 1941) is an American writer and engineer. [1] [2] He has written four novels, including Easy and Hard Ways Out. He has also penned many novelizations, mostly of Neil Simon screenplays. [3]

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The 1984 movie Best Defense , starring Dudley Moore, is loosely based on Easy and Hard Ways Out. Robert Altman considered directing an adaptation of the novel in 1976, from a screenplay by Alan Rudolph. [4] The director and screenwriter also tried to film an adaptation of A Shortage of Engineers, in 2002, before Altman moved on to The Company. [5]

Grossbach's novels have received strong reviews. [6] [7] [8] [9] The New York Times wrote that "as a stylist, Grossbach is in a league with Wallace Markfield, Mordecai Richter and Bruce Jay Friedman." [10]

He has contributed short stories to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and Transatlantic Review . [11] [12] Grossbach has taught at NYU and UCLA Extension. [13]

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  12. Grossbach, Robert (1971). "STANDARDS". The Transatlantic Review (40): 144–150. JSTOR   41513150.
  13. Moran, T. (July 9, 2009). "The work of writing: Lessons from literary engineers". 2009 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference. pp. 1–7. doi:10.1109/IPCC.2009.5208699. ISBN   978-1-4244-4357-4. S2CID   36180136 via IEEE Xplore.
  14. Going in Style. June 27, 2017 via www.hachettebookgroup.com.