Jack Richardson

Jack Carter Richardson (18 February 1934, Manhattan, NY, US – 1 July 2012, Manhattan, NY, US) was an American writer born in Manhattan, though his birthplace has been erroneously reported as Bristol, Virginia. and a Drama Desk Award. Gallows Humor, a 1961 combination of two short plays, was well-received. Producer, William T. Gardner, staged its production at the Academy Playhouse in Lake Forest, Illinois in the late summer of 1973. Richardson's next two plays, Lorenzo and Xmas in Las Vegas (1965), were produced on Broadway but were critical and commercial failures.

From the 1960s, Richardson wrote dramatic criticism and essays for The New York Times, New York Review of Books, Esquire, and Commentary, as well as two novels, The Prison Life of Harris Filmore (1965) and Memoir of a Gambler (1980). Richardson's second wife was Judith Heidler (later Judith Silvia); they also divorced. She became executive director of the Newport Art Association and Museum and later a consultant to Green Collections in Yokohama, Japan. Richardson then married Susan E. Morse, an Academy Award-nominated feature film editor best known for her work with Woody Allen. and, in 2012, for her editing of the popular FX Network show, "Louie," written and directed by and starring Louis C.K., for which Morse was nominated for an Emmy. Richardson and Morse had a son named Dwight, and the marriage lasted until Richardson died in Manhattan in July 2012.