Sparring With Hemingway: And Other Legends of the Fight Game (34 page)

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Authors: Budd Schulberg

Tags: #Biography & Autobiography, #Boxing, #Nonfiction, #Sports

A portrait of Schulberg in 2003, with the following note to his son at the bottom: “For my dear son and best friend Benn with all my love, Dad 8/14/2003.”

The Schulberg family in Westhampton, New York. From left to right: Jessica, Budd, Betsy, and Benn.

From left to right: Schulberg, actress Geraldine Fitzgerald, Elia Kazan, and actress Myrna Loy.
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A letter from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to Schulberg, praising
Moving Pictures
, dated September 19, 1981.

Brothers Stuart Schulberg and Budd Schulberg (from left to right) on the set of
Wind Across the Everglades
, a film written by Budd and produced by Stuart, in 1958.

Budd Schulberg with his second wife, Virginia Anderson, at the pool outside his eighteenth-century farmhouse, Inghamdale, near New Hope, Pennsylvania, with Schulberg’s children David, Steve, and Victoria. This photo was taken around 1949.

Schulberg with fellow members of the U.S. military, taken during World War II.

Schulberg with sons David and Steve.

Schulberg with Geraldine Brooks and pet cat at their family house on Long Island in the mid-1970s.

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Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following publications for permission to reprint articles they first published:
Boxing Illustrated
for “Foreman-Holyfield” and “The Mystery of the Heavyweight Mystique”;
Esquire
for “The Heavyweight Championship”; the
New York Post
for “Leonard-Duran,” “Ali-Holmes,” “The Welterweights,” “The Gerry Cooney Story,” “The Eight-Minute War,” “Sugar’s Sweet, Marvin’s Sour,” “Historic Night in the Ring,” “They Fall Harder When They’re Old,” and “Spink’s Magic Is Not Enough”;
Newsday
for “Sparring with Hemingway,” “In Defense of Boxing,” “Journey to Zaire,” “The Second Coming of George Foreman,” and “Tyson vs. Tyson”;
Playboy
for “The Death of Boxing?”;
Ring
for “The Great Benny Leonard”;
Saturday Review
for “The Chinese Boxes of Muhammad Ali”;
Sports Illustrated
for “Hollywood Hokum,” “No Room for the Groom,” “Marciano and England’s Cockell,” “A Champion Proves His Greatness,” “The Comeback,” and “Boxing’s Dirty Business Must Be Cleaned Up Now”; and
TV Guide
for “Where Have You Gone, Holly Mims?”