As someone who has spent a lot of time in archives and loves archival work, I was especially happy to be at the Newberry, combing Hecht's correspondence, his drafts, his photographs (and holding his first Oscar!). I also used the Sherwood Anderson papers and the MacAdams papers. "Much of the material I used I drew from the amazing Hecht collection there. "As for the Newberry-I couldn't have written the book without it!" Hoffman said. Join us as we hear from Adina Hoffman about Ben Hecht, her book, and how she used the Newberry's Modern Manuscripts collections to research this larger-than-life character. Hoffman writes in detail about Hecht's years here and his involvement both with the city's newspapers and with the Chicago Renaissance. In Adina Hoffman's Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures, Chicago becomes its own character. Listen to an audio recording of this program.
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