Earl Conrad birth name Cohen, was an author who penned at least twenty works of biography

Biography

A biography is a detailed description or account of someone's life. More than a list of basic facts , biography also portrays the subject's experience of those events...

, history

History

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, and criticism

Criticism

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, including books in collaboration. At least one that he 'ghost

Ghostwriter

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' wrote was the biography of actor Errol Flynn

Errol Flynn

Errol Leslie Flynn was an Australian-born actor. He was known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films, being a legend and his flamboyant lifestyle.-Early life:...

, titled My Wicked, Wicked Ways

My Wicked, Wicked Ways

My Wicked, Wicked Ways is an autobiography written by Australian actor Errol Flynn with the aid of ghostwriter Earl Conrad. It was released posthumously following the sudden death of the actor and became immensely popular for its cynical tone and candid depiction of the world of filmmaking in...

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He was born and educated in Auburn, New York. Earl Conrad and his wife, Anna Alyse Conrad, lived in San Francisco at least during the 1971-1972 period. In the early 1980s, they lived in Coronado, California

Coronado, California

Coronado, also known as Coronado Island, is an affluent resort city located in San Diego County, California, 5.2 miles from downtown San Diego. Its population was 24,697 at the 2010 census, up from 24,100 at the 2000 census. U.S. News and World Report lists Coronado as one of the most expensive...

. Some of his papers are in the local history collection of the Cayuga Community College in Auburn.

Works

Earl Conrad has also penned these following works under his name, or with collaboration.

• Typoo
• The Da Vinci Machine
• The Premier
• The Trial of William Freeman
• Scottsboro Boy (with Haywood Patterson)
• The Philology of Negro Dialect
• Horse Trader
• Gulf Stream North
• Harriet Tubman: Negro Soldier and Abolitionist (1942)
• The Invention of the Negro
• Battle New York
• Rock Bottom (1952)
• Jim Crow America
• The Public School Scandal