Ira Wolfert(1908-1997)
- Writer
Novelist, war correspondent and screenwriter whose reporting from World
War II's Pacific Theater earned him a 1943 Pulitzer Prize. His 1943
novel "Tucker's People" was basis for the film-noir Force of Evil (1948), whose
screenplay he co-wrote as well. His 1945 book "American Guerilla in the
Philippines" was basis for the 1950 film of the same title.
