Career
Among his other books were Magnificent Rube: The Life and Gaudy Times of Tex Rickard, and The King: A Biography of Clark Gable. His book with Boris Morros, My Ten Years as a Counterspy was made into the film, Manitoba on a String (1960), starring Ernest Borgnine. The title of another, The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, about Evelyn Nesbit, was used in the 1955 movie.
Samuels, who wrote thousands of magazine and newspaper articles, also helped write the newspaper columns of Ben Hecht and Billy Rose.
He lived mostly in New York City and its suburbs (Hastings-on-Hudson, Nyack, New York and Grand View New York) and retired in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Samuels never graduated from high school or lost his Brooklyn accent.
"I never wanted to be anything but a writer, have talent for nothing else except fast, furious, and occasionally witty conversation. I wouldn"t trade my memories for anyone"s," he told an interviewer.
