birth_date: 1905-05-17 00:00:00
avg_rating: 3.92
name: John     Patrick
about: Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.John Patrick Goggin was an American playwright and screenwriter.Abandoned by his parents, he had a delinquent youth that he spend in foster homes and boarding schools. He married at 19 and got a job as an announcer at KPO Radio in San Francisco, California. After being a scriptwriter for the radio program Cecil and Sally he began writing screenplays, and later he turned to writing screenplays.On November 7, 1995 he committed suicide.
death_date: 1995-11-07 00:00:00