Schulberg, Budd [Wilson] (1914– ),New York‐born novelist, reared in Hollywood, which he satirized in
What Makes Sammy Run? (1941), about a dynamic but vicious opportunist. His other novels are
The Harder They Fall (1947), about crookedness in prizefighting;
The Disenchanted (1950), about the last year of an author modeled on F. Scott Fitzgerald, and partly set at Dartmouth, from which Schulberg was graduated in 1936;
Sanctuary V (1969), about the president of a Latin American nation seeking sanctuary from revolutionaries; and
Everything That Moves (1980), about a labor union leader's entanglement with gangsters.
Waterfront (1955) is a fictive version of his film scenario
On the Waterfront. Some Faces in the Crowd (1950) collects stories as does
Love, Action, Laughter (1990). He collaborated on a musical version of
What Makes Sammy Run? (1964) and dramatized
The Disenchanted (1958). His nonfiction includes
The Four Seasons of Success (1972), about changing opinions of the achievements of six U.S. novelists of which a revised and updated version appeared as
Writers in America in 1983, and
Lover and Still Champion: Muhammad Ali (1972). Schulberg established a writers' workshop for underprivileged blacks in Watts, Calif., and edited their work as
From the Ashes (1967).
Moving Pictures: Memories of a Hollywood Prince (1981) is autobiographical.
