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Philip Wylie
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Screenwriter, Book Author, Short Story Author Born: May 12, 1902 in North Beverly, MA Death: October 25, 1971 Biography:Philip Wylie was one of those rare writers who managed to have a major cultural impact as a provocative and bold essayist during the 1940s and 1950s, while also enjoying considerable success as a screenwriter and novelist from the late '20s until the end of the 1950s; many of his books also served as the basis for movies and television shows. Philip Gordon Wylie was the son of Presbyterian minister Edmund Melville Wylie and the former Edna Edwards, a novelist, who died when he was five years old. As a boy, Wylie escaped from his grief over his mother's death and his subsequent loneliness by plunging into books, and he was later put on a path of youthful rebellion by his father's remarriage. By the time he entered his teens, Wylie was an erudite and very independent thinker who displayed a complete disdain for middle-class propriety and for authority figures of almost any kind. The family's move to... Full Biography
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