Arnold Schulman Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a Writers Guild award for "Goodbye, Columbus․"
• Won the Humanitas Prize in 1994 for "And the Band Played On․"
• Took writing courses at the University of North Carolina
• Served with the United States Navy before moving to New York City in 1946 and officially starting his writing career
• Took playwriting classes from playwright Robert Anderson
• During the early 1950s, he primarily wrote scripts for television, transitioning to writing Hollywood screenplays in 1957
• As an actor, he was associated with the American Theatre Wing and the Actors Studio