Background
Kaufman was born and raised in Baltimore and graduated from the Baltimore City College (high school).
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The brilliant creation of ninety-year-old debut novelist Millard Kaufman, co-creator of Mr. Magoo and twice-nominated for Academy Awards for screenwriting, Bowl of Cherries rivals the liveliest comic epics for giddy wordplay and gleeful invention. Kicked out of Yale at the age of fourteen, Judd Breslau falls in with Phillips Chatterton, a bathrobe-wearing Egyptologist working out of a dilapidated home laboratory. Entranced by Chatterton's daughter, Valerie, Breslau abandons his studies and decides to move in with the eccentric scientist and assist with research. But the work is not what Judd had thought and, mesmerized by Valerie, Breslau follows her to a number of strange locales—a secret attic in her father's home, a Colorado equestrian ranch, and a porn studio beneath the Brooklyn Bridge. Judd ultimately makes his way to the forlorn Iraqi province of Assama, ending up in a jail cell from which he narrates the novel, awaiting his execution while war rages on around him.Kaufman's debut is a book of astounding breadth and sharp consequences, containing all the joy, madness, terror, and doubt of adolescence and everything after.
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Kaufman was born and raised in Baltimore and graduated from the Baltimore City College (high school).
He eventually graduated from Johns Hopkins University after work as a merchant seaman.
He was also one of the creators of Mr. Magoo. After that, he moved to New York City, taking a job as copyboy for the New York Daily News. He enlisted in the Marines in 1942, served on Guadalcanal, landed at Guam with the 1st Marine Brigade (Provisional) where he wrote an article for the Marine Corps Gazette about the battle, then participated in the Okinawa with the 6th Marine Division.
While serving in the Pacific, Kaufman had contracted malaria and dengue fever, and upon his return to the United States, felt he could no longer deal with the extremes of the New York City climate.
In 1949, Kaufman wrote the screenplay for the short film Ragtime Bear, which was the first appearance of Mr. Magoo. He followed this up in 1950 with another Universal Postal Union film, Punchy de Leon, featuring The Fox and The Crow.
In 1950, Kaufman lent his name to screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who had been blacklisted after investigation by the House Un-American Activities Committee, for the screenplay for Gun Crazy. In 1953, he received an Oscar nomination for his screenplay foreign
In 1955, he received another nomination for his screenplay for Bad Day at Black Rock.
Although he usually worked as a writer, he also directed Convicts 4 (1962) and served as associate producer for Raintree County (1957). McSweeney"s published Kaufman"s first novel, titled Bowl of Cherries, in October 2007. Kaufman was 86 years old when he began work on the novel and 90 when it was published.
His second novel, Misadventure, was published posthumously.
Kaufman died aged 92 in Los Angeles of heart failure after open heart surgery. Millard Kaufman at age 90.
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