Awards & Winners

Quentin Reynolds

Date of Birth 11-April-1902
Place of Birth New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Quentin James Reynolds
Profession Writer, Journalist, Actor
Quentin James Reynolds was a journalist and World War II war correspondent. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity. As associate editor at Collier's Weekly from 1933 to 1945, Reynolds averaged twenty articles a year. He also published twenty-five books, including The Wounded Don’t Cry, London Diary, Dress Rehearsal, and Courtroom, a biography of lawyer Samuel Leibowitz. He also published an autobiography, By Quentin Reynolds. After World War II, Reynolds was best known for his libel suit against right-wing Hearst columnist Westbrook Pegler, who called him "yellow" and an "absentee war correspondent". Reynolds, represented by noted attorney Louis Nizer, won $175,001, at the time the largest libel judgment ever. The trial was later made into a Broadway play, A Case of Libel, which was twice adapted as TV movies. In 1953, Reynolds was the victim of a major literary hoax when he published The Man Who Wouldn’t Talk, the supposedly true story of a Canadian war hero, George Dupre, who claimed to have been captured and tortured by German soldiers. When the hoax was exposed, Bennett Cerf, of Random House, Reynolds's publisher, reclassified the book as fiction.

Awards by Quentin Reynolds

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1949


Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay
Honored for : Call Northside 777

Nominations 1949 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay Call Northside 777