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Terry Southern

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Born: April 30 1924

Died: 2828 10 19951995

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Terry Southern was a highly influential American short story writer, novelist, essayist, screenwriter and university lecturer noted for his distinctive satirical style. He was part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to Beat writers in Greenwich Village; he was at the center of Swinging London in the sixties and helped to change the style and substance of Hollywood films of the 1970s. In the 1980s he wrote for Saturday Night Live and lectured on screenwriting at several universities in New York.

Southern's dark and often absurdist style of broad yet biting satire helped to define the sensibilities of several generations of intelligent writers, readers, directors and film goers. He is credited by journalist Tom Wolfe as having invented New Journalism with the publication of "Twirling at Ole Miss" in Esquire in 1962, and his gift for writing memorable film dialogue was evident in Dr. Strangelove, The Loved One, The Cincinnati Kid and Easy Rider. His work on Easy Rider helped create the independent film movement of the 1970s, in opposition to Hollywood film studios.

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Terry Southern

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Books from Terry Southern

Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle

The Magic Christian

The Neon Wilderness

Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes

Flash and Filigree

Now Dig This: The Unspeakable Writings, 1950-1995

Texas Summer

Blue Movie

Easy Rider

Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Shooting Script

The Early Stones: Legendary Photographs of a Band in the Making 1963-73

Virgin: A History Of Virgin Records

A Harvest of Horrors

The Journal of the Loved One: The Production Log of a Motion Picture.

Writers In Revolt: An Anthology

"Pardon Me, Sir, But Is My Eye Hurting Your Elbow?"

Yours in Haste and Adoration: Selected Letters of Terry Southern

The Rolling Stones On Tour

The Hipsters

Jazz