# Stephen Longstreet

Stephen Longstreet, né le 18 avril 1907 à New York et mort le 20 février 2002 à Century City, quartier de Los Angeles, est un scénariste et un écrivain américain.

## Biographie

Né Chauncey Weiner, il adopte le pseudonyme de Stephen Longstreet pour amorcer une carrière d'écrivain et de scénariste à Hollywood. Sous ce nom et sous les pseudonymes de Paul Haggard, Thomas Burton, David Ormsbee et Henri Weiner, il a également publié des nouvelles, des romans, des ouvrages historiques et des études sur le jazz et sur les tableaux de grands maîtres de la peinture.

## Œuvre
### Filmographie

* 1935 : Ville sans loi de Howard Hawks (non crédité)
* 1942 : Les Folles Héritières de Irving Rapper
* 1943 : He Can't Make It Stick de John Hubley et Paul Sommer
* 1943 : The Last Will and Testament of Tom Smith de Harold S. Bucquet
* 1944 : L'Imposteur de Julien Duvivier
* 1944 : The Fighting Generation, documentaire
* 1945 : L'Oncle Harry (The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry) de Robert Siodmak
* 1946 : Le Roman d'Al Jolson de Alfred E. Green
* 1947 : Stallion Road de James V. Kern
* 1948 : La Rivière d'argent de Raoul Walsh
* 1951 : The Last Half Hour: The Mayerling Story de Richard Oswald
* 1956 : The First Traveling Saleslady de Arthur Lubin
* 1957 : Untamed Youth de Howard W. Koch
* 1957 : The Helen Morgan Story de Michael Curtiz
* 1958 : Outcasts of the City de Boris Petroff (en)
* 1962 : Wild Harvest de Jerry A. Baerwitz
* 1962 : Rider on a Dead Horse de Herbert L. Strock
* 1964 : Panic Buttonde George Sherman et Giuliano Carnimeo
* 1964 : The Secret Door de Gilbert Kay

### Romans
#### Signés Stephen Longstreet

* Decade, 1929-1939 (1940)
* The Golden Touch (1941)
* Two Beds for Roxane (1942)
* The Gay Sisters (1943)
* The Land I Lived (1943)
* Nine Lives with Grandfather (1944)
* Stallion Road (1945)
* The Sisters Liked Them Handsome (1946)
* Three Days (1947)
* The Crystal Girl (1948)
* The Beach House (1952)
* The Lion at Morning (1954) Publié en français sous le titre Le Lion au matin, Paris, Del Duca, 1958
* The Promoters (1957)
* The Burning Man (1958)
* Man of Montmartre: a novel based on the life of Maurice Utrillo (1958), en collaboration avec Ethel Longstreet
* The Politician (1959)
* The Crime (1959)
* Artists' Quarter (1960)
* Geisha (1960)
* Wild Harvest (1960)
* Gettysburg (1961)
* Living High (1962) Publié en français sous le titre Le Grand Plongeon, Paris, Gallimard, Série noire n$^o$ 813, 1963
* The Flesh Peddlers (1962)
* The Nylon Island (1964)
* The Golden Runaways (1964)
* Remember William Kite? (1966)
* Masts to Spear the Stars (1967)
* The Young Men of Paris (1967)
* Senator Silverthorn (1968)
* She Walks in Beauty (1970), roman d'enfance et de jeunesse
* The General (1974)
* Stribling (1974)
* The Divorce (1974)
* The Kingston Fortune (1975)
* God and Sarah Pedlock (1976)
* The Bank (1976)
* Strike the Bell Boldly (1977)
* The Kingston Fortune (1977)
* Straw Boss (1978)
* Ambassador (1978)
* The Dream Seekers (1979)
* Storm Watch (1979)
* The Pembroke Colours (1981)
* Wheel of Fortune (1981)
* All or Nothing (1983)
* Delilah's Fortune (1985)
* Our Father's House (1985)
* Sons and Daughters (1987)
* Children of Fortune (1988)

#### Série The Pedlocks

* The Pedlocks, a family (1951)
* Pedlock & Sons (1966)
* Pedlock Saint, Pedlock Sinner (1969)
* The Pedlock Inheritance (1972)
* Pedlock at Law (1976)
* The Pedlocks in Love (1978)
* The Pedlocks (1981)

#### Trilogie de romans historiques

* A Few Painted Feathers (1963)
* War in the Golden Weather (1965)
* Eagles Where I Walk (1966)

#### Signés Paul Haggard

* Dead Is the Door-Nail (1937)
* The Nudist Case Murder (1937)
* Murder Most Foul (1937)
* Death Talks Shop (1938)
* Death Walks on Cat Feet (1938)
* Poison from a Wealthy Widow (1938)

#### Signés Thomas Burton

* And So Dedicated: an American novel (1940)
* Bloodbird (1941)

#### Signés David Ormsbee

* Sound of an American (1942)
* Chico goes to the Wars: a chronicle 1933-1943 (1943)

#### Signés Henri Weiner

* Crime on the Cuff (1936)
* The Case of the Severed Skull (1939)

### Nouvelles
#### Signée Paul Haggard

* She Sent a Tiger (1940)

### Théâtre

* High Button Shoes: a period comedy on two acts (1949)

### Ouvrages historiques

* War Cries on Horseback: The Story of Indian Wars of the Great Plains (1940)
* A Century on Wheels. The Story of Studebaker: a history, 1952-1952 (1952)
* The Real Jazz, old and New (1956) Publié en français sous le titre Encyclopédie du jazz, Paris, Somogy, 1958
* The Boy in the Model-T: a journey in the just gone past (1956)
* Sportin' House: a history of the New Orleans sinners and the birth of jazz (1965)
* The Wilder Shore: a gala history of San Francisco (1969)
* The Canvas Falcons: the story of the men and the planes of World War I (1970)
* Yoshiwara: city of the senses ou Yoshiwara: the Pleasure quarters of old Tokyo (1970), en collaboration avec Ethel Longstreet
* We All Went to Paris: Americans in the City of Light, 1776-1971 (1972)
* Chicago, an intimate portrait of people, pleasures and power: 1860-1919 (1973)
* City on Two Rivers: profile of New York yesterday and today (1975)
* All Star Cast: an anecdotal history of Los Angeles (1977)
* Win or Lose: a social history of gambling in America (1977)
* The Queen Bees: the women who shaped America (1979)
* Storyville to Harlem: fifty years in the jazz scene (1986)
* Jazz from A to Z (1989)
* Magic Trumpets: the story of jazz for young people (1989)
* Jazz Solos: Poems and Images (1991)
* Lower Than Angels: a memoir of War and Peace (1993)

### Autres publications

* Last Man Around the World (1941)
* The Last Man Comes Home: american travel journals, 1941-1942 (1942)
* Never Look Back: the autobiography of a jockey (1958)
* A Treasury of the World's Great Prints (1961)
* The Drawings of Raphael (1962)
* The Drawings of Poussin (1963)
* The Drawings of Rembrandt (1963)
* The Drawings of Vincent Van Gogh (1963)
* The Figure in Art (1963)
* The Drawings of Dürer (1964)
* The Drawings of Peter Paul Rubens (1964)
* The Drawings of Ingres (1964)
* The Drawings of Cézanne (1964)
* The Drawings of Degas (1964)
* The Drawings of Daumier (1964)
* The Drawings of Menzel (1964)
* The Drawings of Dali (1964)
* The Portrait in Art (1965)
* The Drawings of Renoir (1965)
* The Drawings of Rodin (1965)
* The Drawings of Gauguin (1965)
* The Animal in Art (1966)
* The Child in Art (1966)
* The Tree in Art (1966)
* The House in Art (1966)
* The Horse in Art (1966)
* The Drawings of Toulouse-Lautrec (1966)
* The Drawings of Watteau (1966)
* The Drawings of La Lyre (1966)
* The Drawings of Tintoretto (1967)
* The Drawings of Kaethe Kollwitz (1967)
* The Drawings of Augustus John (1967)
* Daumier's Human Comedy (1967)
* A Salute to American Cooking (1968)
* The Dance in Art (1968)
* The Drawings of Goya on Prado Museum (1969)
* The Drawings of Fuseli (1969)
* The Drawings of Kokusai (1969)
* The Drawings of Winslow Homer (1970)
* The Drawings of Modigliani (1972)
* The Drawings of Matisse (1973)
* More Drawings of Delacroix (1973)
* Self-Portraits of Great Artists (1973)
* The Joy of Jewish Cooking (1974), en collaboration avec Ethel Longstreet
* More Drawings of Rembrandt (1974)
* The Drawings of Picasso (1974)
* The Drawings of Jossi Stern (1974)
* Life on the Fast Lane (1981)
* Our Times in Line (1981)
* The Computer Age (1983)
* Slings and Arrows (1984)
* The Drawings of Pontormo (1986)

## Sources

* Claude Mesplède et Jean-Jacques Schleret, SN Voyage au bout de la noire, Futuropolis, 1982
* Claude Mesplède, Les Années Série noire vol.2 (1959-1966) Encrage « Travaux » n$^o$ 17, 1993