Jeremy Larner Dies: Oscar-Winning The Candidate&#8...

What’s Happening

Listen up: Jeremy Larner, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Candidate (1972), has died.

The writers son Jesse Larner told The New York Times that his father died on Feb. 24 in a nursing facility in Oakland, California. (we’re not making this up)

Although he was diagnosed with lymphoma in January and had Parkinsons disease since 2013, a specific cause [] Robert Redford in ‘The Candidate’ (1972) Courtesy Everett Collection Jeremy Larner , the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Candidate (1972), has died.

The Details

The writers son Jesse Larner told The New York Times that his father died on Feb. Born in Olean, New York, Larner graduated from Brandeis University in 1958 before writing several books throughout the 60s, including his debut 1964 novel Drive, He dropped , which was adapted by co-writer/director Jack Nicholson into a 1971 film.

As a journalist, Larner wrote for Harpers , The Paris Review and Life .

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