While with the Chicago Daily News, this author helped implicate Carl Wanderer in the "Case of the Ragged Stranger" and wrote a popular column called 1001 Afternoons in Chicago.
The aristocratic spy Von Stinnes appears in this author's first novel, which is named for its protagonist, Erik Dorn. While with the Chicago Daily News, this author helped implicate Carl Wanderer in the "Case of the Ragged Stranger" and wrote a popular column called 1001 Afternoons in Chicago. One of his written works was an adaptation of James H. Street's story "A Letter to the Editor", in which Oliver Stone sends the reporter Wally Cook to interview Hazel Flagg, who is supposedly dying of radium poisoning. This author and Charles MacArthur wrote a play about tabloid reporter Hildy Johnson; that play, The Front Page, was adapted into the movie His Girl Friday. His play The Great Magoo was adapted into Some Like it Hot, which along with his work on Spellbound, Notorious, and other films led to his being nicknamed the "Shakespeare of Hollywood". For 10 points, identify this first (*) winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, an American screenwriter who shares his surname with the poet of "The Dover Bitch".
The aristocratic spy Von Stinnes appears in this author's first novel, which is named for its protagonist, Erik Dorn.
Ben Hecht [do not accept "Anthony Hecht"; also do not accept "Charles MacArthur", since MacArthur didn't work for the Daily News; do accept Erik Dorn until "this author" is read]