Education
He then earned a bachelor"s degree in philosophy from Columbia University, and studied at the University of Munich.
He then earned a bachelor"s degree in philosophy from Columbia University, and studied at the University of Munich.
He was known for his existentialist dramas of the early 1960s. Raised in the Jackson Heights section of Queens, New York City, Richardson later served in the Counter Intelligence Corps (Counter Intelligence Corps) in the United States Army during the Korean War. Gallows Humor, a 1961 combination of two short plays, was also well received.
Richardson"s next two plays, Lorenzo (1963) and Christmas in Las Vegas (1965), were produced on Broadway, but were critical and commercial failures.
From the 1960s, Richardson wrote dramatic criticism and essays for The New York Times, New York Review of Books, Esquire, and Commentary, as well as two novels: The Prison Life of Harris Filmore (1965) and Memoir of a Gambler (1980). Richardson married author Anne Roth (now Anne Roiphe) in 1957, and they had a daughter Emily Carter.
The couple later divorced. Richardson"s second wife was Judith Heidler (later Judith Silvia).
They also divorced. She went on to become executive director of the Newport Art Association and Museum and later a consultant to Green Collections in Yokohama, Japan, and is listed in Who"s Who in American Artist and, in 2012, for her editing of the popular Forex Network show, "Louie," written and directed by and starring Louis C.K., for which Morse was nominated for an Emmy.