Daniel Fuchs
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Photograph of Daniel Fuchs with his son Jacob, Erwinna, c.1940, photo courtesy of Jacob Fuchs
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STAGE & SCREEN ARTIST, FICTION WRITER
BORN: June 25, 1909, New York, New York
DIED: July 26, 1993, Los Angeles, California
Daniel Fuchs was a novelist, short-story writer, and screenwriter. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Fuchs drew upon his own experiences when writing about Jewish ghetto life. He first combined fiction writing with teaching in the New York public school system during the 1930s. Fuchs' first two novels, Summer in Williamsburg (1934) and Homage to Blenholt (1936), are set in the Jewish slum of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, while his third novel, Low Company (1937), is set in Neptune Beach, a community modeled upon Brooklyn's Brighton Beach. The novels were a commercial failure and only received widespread critical acclaim when reprinted in 1961 as the Williamsburg trilogy. During the 1930s Fuchs also wrote short stories, which were published in the New Yorker and other magazines. Like many other New York writers, Fuchs went to Hollywood around 1940. He achieved success as a screenwriter, earning an Academy Award for Love Me Or Leave Me (1955) starring Doris Day and James Cagney. As recently as 1995, Fuchs received posthumous credit, along with producer Steven Soderbergh, for writing The Underneath, a remake of his film noir classic, Criss Cross (1949).
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