Stephen Longstreet

Stephen Longstreet (April 18, 1907 – February 20, 2002) was an American author. Born Chauncey (later Henri) Weiner (sometimes Wiener) on April 18, 1907, he was known as Stephen Longstreet from 1939. He wrote as Paul Haggard, David Ormsbee and Thomas Burton, and Longstreet, as well as his birth name. He died on February 20, 2002.

The 1948 Broadway musical High Button Shoes was based on Longstreet's semi-autobiographical 1946 novel, The Sisters Liked Them Handsome.

Under contract at Warner Bros. in the 1940s, Longstreet wrote "The Jolson Story" and "Stallion Road," based on his novel of the same name and starring Ronald Reagan. He later wrote "The Helen Morgan Story," and as a television writer in the 1950s and' 1960s he wrote for "Playhouse 90."

Longstreet's nonfiction works "San Francisco, '49 to '06," and "Chicago: 1860 to 1920" as well as "A Century on Wheels, The Story of Studebaker" and a Jewish Cookbook That he wrote with his wife and occasional collaborator, Ethel.

A number of his books dealt with jazz, Including "Jazz From A to Z: A Graphic Dictionary," his 100th book, published in 1989

The world of jazz was a constant theme Throughout Longstreet's life.

Bibliography

Fiction

• The Pedlocks
• The Lion at Morning
• The Beach House
• Man of Montmartre
• Geisha
• Remember William Kite?
• Pedlock and Sons
• The Young Men of Paris
• Pedlock Saint, Pedlock Sinner
• The Last Man Comes Home (1942)
• The Sisters Liked Them Handsome (1946)
• The Promoters (1957)

Plays

• High Button Shoes, A Period comedy in Two Acts (1949)

Nonfiction

• The Boy in the Model-T
• The Real Jazz, Old and New
• A Treasury of the World's Great Prints
• The Canvas Falcons

References

• Stephen Longstreet at the Internet Movie Database