Herman J. Mankiewicz
Herman Jacob Mankiewicz was an American screenwriter, who, with Orson Welles, wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane . Earlier, he was the Berlin correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and the drama critic for The New York Times and The New Yorker. Alexander Woollcott said that Herman Mankiewicz was the funniest man in New York. Both Mankiewicz and Welles received Academy Awards for their screenplay.
Herman Mankiewicz was born in New York City in 1897. His parents were of German Jewish ancestry his father, Franz Mankiewicz, was born in Berlin and emigrated to the U.S. from Hamburg in 1892. He arrived in the U.S. with his wife, a dressmaker named Johanna Blumenau, who was from the Germanspeaking Kurland region.21 The family lived first in New York and then moved to WilkesBarre, Pennsylvania, where Hermans father accepted a teaching position. In 1909, Hermans brother, Joseph L. Mankiewicz , was born, and both boys and a sister spent their childhood there.
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