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Robert Grossbach

b. 1941

American writer and engineer (born 1941)

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Born 1941. Robert Grossbach is an American novelist and writer.

Robert Grossbach (born 1941) is an American writer and engineer. He has written four novels, including Easy and Hard Ways Out. He has also penned many novelizations, mostly of Neil Simon screenplays.

The 1984 movie Best Defense, starring Dudley Moore, is loosely based on Easy and Hard Ways Out. Robert Altman considered directing an adaptation of the novel in 1976, from a screenplay by Alan Rudolph. The director and screenwriter also tried to film an adaptation of A Shortage of Engineers, in 2002, before Altman moved on to The Company.

Grossbach's novels have received strong reviews. The New York Times wrote that "as a stylist, Grossbach is in a league with Wallace Markfield, Mordecai Richter and Bruce Jay Friedman."

He has contributed short stories to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and Transatlantic Review. Grossbach has taught at NYU and UCLA Extension.

Novels

Someone Great (1971) Easy and Hard Ways Out (1974) Never Say Die: An Autonecrographical Novel (1979) A Shortage of Engineers (2001)

Novelizations

The Cheap Detective (1978) The Goodbye Girl (1978) "...And Justice for All" (1979) California Suite (1979) The Frisco Kid (1979) Going in Style (1979) Chapter Two (1980) The Devil and Max Devlin (1980) Four Friends (1981) Georgia (1982)

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Who is Robert Grossbach?

American writer and engineer (born 1941)

When was Robert Grossbach born?

Robert Grossbach was born in 1941.

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Robert Grossbach is a novelist and writer.

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Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Robert Grossbach

· Wikidata: Q65694622

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