Irving Shulman

Irving Shulman was an American author and screenwriter whose works were adapted into movies, including "The Amboy Dukes", "Cry Tough", and "The Square Trap". Shulman wrote the early film treatment for "Rebel Without a Cause". Later, Shulman used his treatment as the basis for his 1956 novel "Children of the Dark". After earning a master's degree from Columbia University, he served in the Army during World War II. He spent most of the war in Washington, D.C., working for the War Department's troop education program, where he wrote for Army Talk.