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Bud Schulberg was born in New York City, New York, USA from March 27, 1914 to August 5, 2009. He died at the age of 95. As an internationally renowned screenwriter and author, Budd Schulberg is best known for the Hollywood film "On the Waterfront", which he served as screenwriter and director. His "Brilliant" and "Bad" books were selected into the People's Education This is the text of Lesson 20 in Volume 1 of Chinese Language for Grade 5.

Schulberg was deeply influenced by his mother, Adina. In the early 1930s, Adina returned from Moscow and brought her son many Soviet short stories. From this, Schulberg was familiar with Gorky's "Mother" and "The Enemy", which described the workers' movement and created an image of workers with a fighting spirit; he was also familiar with Isaac Babel's "The Red Cavalry" . He recalled: "Late at night, I turned on the light and immersed myself in reading. I really hope that one day, my works can be included in similar anthologies." Extended information

Bud Schulberg has been a writer since he was 17 years old. Paramount wrote promotional materials and touted some rising stars, but Budd Schulberg, who had been exposed to Hollywood for many years, became a complete rebel against Hollywood's aesthetic orientation and commercial production model. After being educated at Dartmouth College, he began as a film script reader and then as a film script writer. He joined the Communist Party in 1937 and quit the party in 1939 when the Communist Party asked him to reflect the party's teachings in a novel.

In 1941, the 27-year-old Schulberg made his debut with the novel "How Sammy rose to greatness". The novel tells the story of how a boy who worked in a newspaper office in New York climbed his way up the corporate ladder by stealing, lying, deceiving and other despicable means. He became the production director of a Hollywood film company. Because the novel contains many allusions to Hollywood tycoon Louis Meyer, the latter became furious and threatened to expel Schulberg. Fortunately, Schulberg's father, B.P. Schulberg, was in a high position at the time, and because of his intercession, Louis Mayer did not pursue the case.

However, this novel made the young Schulberg a blockbuster, especially the amount of inside information he knew. Although Hollywood was curious and fascinated, it had to regard him as a "traitor". Years later, when talking about the prototype in his debut novel, Schulberg pointedly pointed out: "What I sketched was not a person, but a behavior.

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