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"Before his death in 2009, legendary Texas author Edwin "Bud" Shrake completed a final novel based on his real-life adventures as a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1970s and '80s. This rollicking new novel, discovered among Shrake's literary papers at the Wittliff Collections, provides a hilarious and insightful look at the Hollywood meat grinder"--
About the author
EDWIN "BUD" SHRAKE (1931-2009), dubbed "lion of Texas letters" by the
Austin American-Statesman, was a member of the Texas Film Hall of Fame and a recipient of the Lon Tinkle Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Texas Institute of Letters. He was a founding member of Mad Dog, Inc., a notoriously unruly and irreverent gathering of writers. A screenwriter with credits including
Tom Horn (Steve McQueen),
Kid Blue (Dennis Hopper), and
Songwriter (Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson), Shrake was also the author of
Blessed McGill and
Strange Peaches.
Summary
Before his death in 2009, legendary Texas author Edwin’Bud' Shrake completed a final novel based on his real-life adventures as a Hollywood screenwriter in the 1970s and’80s. This rollicking novel, discovered among Shrake's literary papers at the Wittliff Collections, provides a hilarious and insightful look at the Hollywood meat grinder.
