Calder Willingham

Calder Baynard Willingham Jr. (December 23, 1922 – February 19, 1995) was an American novelist and screenwriter.

Before the age of 30, after three novels and a collection of short stories, ''The New Yorker'' was describing Willingham as having “fathered modern black comedy,” his signature a dry, straight-faced humor, made funnier by its concealed comic intent. His work matured over six more novels, including ''Eternal Fire'' (1963), which ''Newsweek'' wrote “deserves a place among the dozen or so novels that must be mentioned if one is to speak of greatness in American fiction.”

He had a significant career in cinema too, with screenplays including ''Paths of Glory'' (1957), ''One-Eyed Jacks'' (1960), ''The Graduate'' (1967) and ''Little Big Man'' (1970). Provided by Wikipedia