Title: Jay Robert Nash Description: Chicago, Illinois, December 1977: Jay Robert Nash (1937- ), left, directing his own play, Nineteen Forty Seven, after the scheduled director had a nervous breakdown; here Nash inspects the makeup of leading actor Jack Wallace, right, who enacted a dying Al Capone; the production ran for only a few weeks; Nash later lamented: "Chicago's brutal weather greeted the opening of my play with one of its worst snowstorms and cold snaps, causing more than 5,000 cancellations of reserved tickets...the play, re-titled Last Rites for the Boys, fared better as a showcase production in sunny Los Angeles, where it ran for several months and kept Jack Wallace and some other actors eating." American author, syndicated columnist, editor, publisher, novelist and historian; Nash is best known for Dillinger: Dead or Alive? (1970); Citizen Hoover (1972); Bloodletters and Badmen (1973; Best Reference Award from the American Library Association); Hustlers and Con Men (1976); Darkest Hours (1976; Best Reference Award from the American Library Association); Among the Missing (1978); Murder, America (1980); Look for the Woman (1981); Murder Among the Mighty (1983); The Motion Picture Guide (1986-1992; 17 vols., ref., two Best Reference Awards, year and decade, from the American Library Association); Encyclopedia of World Crime (1990-1999, 8 vols., ref., winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America); Spies (1997); Terrorism in the 20th Century (1998); The Great Pictorial History of World Crime (2004; 2 vols., ref.); I am Innocent! A Comprehensive Encyclopedic History of the World's Wrongly Convicted Persons (2008); authors; actors; books; columnists; directors; editors; historians; novelists; Category: Authors Keywords: playwrights, publishers, theater, writers Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 2100 x 2691 (5.65 MPixels) (1.28) Print Size: 17.8 x 22.8 cm; 7.0 x 9.0 inches File Size: 16.20 MB (16,985,924 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000055445 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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