Let Me Hear You Whisper

born May 15, 1936, Staten Island, New York, U.S.

died March 27, 2003,New York, New York

whose largely autobiographical work

features poignant, alienated characters who deal with life’s difficulties in pragmatic and straightforward ways.

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1971; filmed 1972), 

And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little (1971), 

The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild (1973), 

Let Me Hear You Whisper (1970), 

The Ladies Should Be in Bed (1973),

A Destiny with Half Moon Street (produced 1983; published 1992),

and Amulets Against the Dragon Forces (1989; based partly on his novel Confessions of a Teenage Baboon).

The Pigman (1968), 

My Darling, My Hamburger (1969), 

Harry and Hortense at Hormone High (1984),

 A Begonia for Miss Applebaum (1989),

and David & Della (1993).

he followed with The Doom Stone (1995)

and Reef of Death (1998).

He also wrote screenplays of his own works and for Up the Sandbox (1972), 

Runaway Train (1985),

and several made-for-television movies.