His career began with a 1935 work about the Berger
His career began with a 1935 work about the Berger family in which the patriarch, Jacob, kills himself to leave money to his grandson Ralph. His screenplay for the 1936 bomb The General Died at Dawn prompted critic Frank Nugent to make a pun using his name followed by "where is thy sting?" This man, the basis of the character Barton Fink, created a movie star named Charlie Castle and satirized Hollywood in The Big Knife, and also createda violinist-turned-boxer named Joe Bonaparte in Golden Boy. For ten points, name this American playwright who wrote about a cabdrivers' strike in Waiting for Lefty.
His career began with a 1935 work about the Berger family in which the patriarch, Jacob, kills himself to leave money to his grandson Ralph.
Clifford {Odets}