Stephen Longstreet
(1907–2002)

Stephen Longstreet was a writer of movie screenplays, art criticism, novels, television scripts, and detective stories. A native New Yorker, Longstreet was an accomplished artist that studied painting in Paris, Rome, London, and Berlin. While living in Europe in the 1920s, he became acquainted with such famous artists as Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso, as well as famous authors, James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway. He was drawn back to the United States by the evolution of jazz—from its beginnings in New Orleans to its spread to New York. Longstreet is also a renowned playwright—some of his scripts based upon his novels. His screenplay for "The Greatest Show on Earth" was nominated for an Academy Award in 1952. Longstreet died of pneumonia and congestive heart failure in 2002.

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