James William Drought

Drought was born in Aurora, Illinois, and grew up near Chicago. From 1952 to 1954 he served in the U.S. Army in the 82nd Airborne Division as a paratrooper stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. In 1960, he moved to Norwalk, Connecticut, with his family, where he was a magazine editor in New York City, New York. One of his books was adapted into the movie The Gypsy Moths (1969) starring Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr and Gene Hackman. A complete collection of his works is preserved at the Mugar Memorial Library in the Special Collections Department at Boston University. He died on June 2, 1983, in Norwalk Hospital. == Publications==

• Boxed in by the Rich, A Parody (1950) • The Wedding, A Play for Voices (1953) • The Gypsy Moths, A Fable (1955) • Memories of A Humble Man, An Irony (1957) • Mover, A Modern Tragedy (1959) • ii A Duo, A Story by Two Men (1961) • The Secret, An Oratorio of Protest (1962) • The Enemy, A Personal Reminiscence (1964) • Drugoth, Biography of a Private Person (1965) • ALIVEMOVIEBOOK, An Adaptation (1967) • The Master, A Chronicle (1970) • Sonny Davis Televised, A Comedy (1972) • Blessed Bob Bunyan, An Inquiry (1974) • The Book of Names, A Novel-Verite (1976) • Superstar for President, A Satire (1978) • Writer in Exile, A Mystery (1980) • So Long Chicago, A Novel of Improvisational Comedy (1982) • Queen of Spades (unpublished) (1983) ==References==