Ben Hecht Criticism: Further Reading

Additional coverage of Hecht's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 85–88; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 8; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 7, 9, 25, 26, 28, 86.

Citron, Atay, "Ben Hecht's Pageant-Drama: A Flag Is Born," in Staging the Holocaust: The Shoah in Drama and Performance, edited by Claude Schumacher, Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 70–93. (Discusses Hecht's 1946 play A Flag Is Born as the first example of Holocaust drama.)

Harap, Louis, Creative Awakening: The Jewish Presence in Twentieth-Century American Literature, 1900–1940s. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987, 196 pp. (Compares Hecht with Nathanael West as examples of self-hating Jews, which Harap feels is evident in the two men's works.)

Kramer, Dale, Chicago Renaissance: The Literary Life in the Midwest, 1900–1930. New York: Appleton-Century, 1966, 369 pp. (Reviews the cultural milieu in which Hecht began his career as a newspaperman, novelist, and short story writer.)

MacAdams, William, Ben Hecht: The Man behind the Legend. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990, 366 pp. (Biography that contains a detailed bibliography of Hecht's screenplays, short stories, nonfiction, and novels.)

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