Paul Monash Biography

Fast Facts

• Won the 2000 Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award from the Writers Guild of America, the highest award for television writing, for "advancing the literature of television through the years․"
• Won the Humanitas Prize in the PBS/Cable Category for "George Wallace" in 1998
• Graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in Journalism and earned his Master's in Education from Columbia University
• Wrote the screenplay for his first TV series, "Foreign Intrigue," based on his experiences as a merchant marine and as an ex-pat studying art in Paris
• Quote: "(On accepting his lifetime achievement award): "I have not written the Great American Novel․ It is still in first draft․""
• He was very influential in the early days of television, writing for shows like "Studio One," "Playhouse 90," and "Peyton Place․"
• Best known as the writer and producer of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "Carrie," and "Slaughterhouse-Five․"
• He published two novels, one in Manhattan and one in Paris, but not the "Great American Novel" which he had spent most of his life seeking out in his travels