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Terry Southern
Southern in the North Texas Agricultural College yearbook, 1940s
Born
(1924-05-01)May 1, 1924 Alvarado, Texas, U.S.
Died
October 29, 1995(1995-10-29) (aged 71) New York City, U.S.
Occupation
Novelist
essayist
screenwriter
lecturer
Education
Northwestern University (BA)
Literary movement
New Journalism
Notable works
Candy (1958)
The Magic Christian (1959)
Blue Movie (1970)
Spouse
Carol Kauffman Southern
(m. 1956; div. 1965)
Children
Nile Southern
Terry Southern (May 1, 1924 – October 29, 1995) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to Beat writers in Greenwich Village, Southern was also at the center of Swinging London in the 1960s and helped to change the style and substance of American films in the 1970s. He briefly wrote for Saturday Night Live in the 1980s.
Southern's dark and often absurdist style of satire helped to define the sensibilities of several generations of writers, readers, directors, and filmgoers. He is credited by journalist Tom Wolfe as having invented New Journalism with the publication of "Twirling at Ole Miss" in Esquire in February 1963. Southern's reputation was established with the publication of his comic novels Candy and The Magic Christian and through his gift for writing memorable film dialogue as evident in Dr. Strangelove, The Loved One, The Cincinnati Kid, and The Magic Christian. His work on Easy Rider helped create the independent film movement of the 1970s.
TerrySouthern (May 1, 1924 – October 29, 1995) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical...
with Easy Rider (1969), which he and co-star Peter Fonda wrote with TerrySouthern. The film earned Hopper a Cannes Film Festival Award and a nomination...
independent road drama film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and TerrySouthern, produced by Fonda, and directed by Hopper. Fonda and Hopper play two...
George Hanson in Easy Rider was written for Torn by TerrySouthern, but according to Southern's biographer Lee Hill, Torn withdrew from the project after...
book of the 1969 Andy Warhol film Blue Movie (novel), a 1970 novel by TerrySouthern "The Blue Film", a 1954 short story by the English novelist Graham Greene...
sex novel Candy, by TerrySouthern and Mason Hoffenberg. He is the son of writer TerrySouthern and literary editor Carol Southern. "'The Candy Men' -...
filming began, Kubrick hired noted journalist and satirical author TerrySouthern to transform the script into its final form, a black comedy, loaded...
by the City was also seen on the convention floor itself. In 1968, TerrySouthern described the convention hall as "exactly like approaching a military...
published works by Jack Kerouac, Philip Larkin, V. S. Naipaul, Philip Roth, TerrySouthern, Adrienne Rich, Italo Calvino, Samuel Beckett, Nadine Gordimer, Jean...
Orange (1962), which was to be based on a screen treatment by satirist TerrySouthern and British photographer Michael Cooper. Cooper and the Rolling Stones...
apparent that she has amnesia. Pretty Peaches was likely influenced by TerrySouthern and Mason Hoffenberg's Candy, itself often perceived as a homage to...
(film), a 1969 film The Magic Christian (novel), a 1959 comic novel by TerrySouthern Christian views on magic Magic cristian, American musician Phil Cristian...
he was involved. He appointed his friend, satirist and screenwriter TerrySouthern, as one of the principals. They collaborated on a number of screenplays...
to his multiple other roles, but according to the film's co-writer, TerrySouthern, Blocker's agent rejected the script. The role went to Slim Pickens...
non-Bond projects from either 1963 or 1964 – The Marriage Game written by TerrySouthern and to have been directed by Peter Yates and The Pass Beyond Kashmir...
himself, Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, TerrySouthern, Robert Christgau, Gay Talese and others. Articles in the New Journalism...
lawyer who rides along with them. Fonda co-wrote the screenplay with TerrySouthern and Hopper. Fonda tried to secure financing from Roger Corman and American...
victim of a con artist in the 2003 film Heavy Put-Away, based on the TerrySouthern story. In 2006, she shared the lead in a romantic comedy, Puccini for...
novel that involved such New Hollywood contemporaries as screenwriter TerrySouthern and cinematographer Haskell Wexler. After being nominated for the Academy...
from the future." Excerpts of Lerner's second novel, 10:04, won the TerrySouthern Prize from The Paris Review. Writing in the Los Angeles Review of Books...
by Tom Wolfe and also championed by Lester Bangs, George Plimpton, TerrySouthern, and John Birmingham, and is considered a subgenre of New Journalism...
12 December 2016. "Emma Cline Wins Plimpton Prize; Ben Lerner Wins TerrySouthern Prize". The Paris Review. 12 March 2014. Retrieved 12 December 2016...
"Grooving in Chi" Archived December 8, 2013, at the Wayback Machine by TerrySouthern from Esquire (1968) "Brief History of Chicago's 1968 Democratic Convention"...
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