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Budd Schulberg (born March 27, 1914, New York City, New York, U.S.—died August 5, 2009, Westhampton Beach, New York) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and journalist who was best known for the novel What Makes Sammy Run? (1941) and for the screenplay for the movie On the Waterfront (1954). The son of the Hollywood motion-picture producer Benjamin Percival (“B.P.”) Schulberg (1892–1957), who for many years was production chief at Paramount Pictures, Schulberg grew up in...