Tom Stempel was born and brought up in Bloomington, Indiana. He received
his B.A. from Yale and served in the Navy for four years. While working
on an M.F.A. in screenwriting at UCLA, he interviewed Nunnally Johnson for
the Oral History of the Motion Pictures Project. Mr. Stempel later used
that interview as the basis for his doctoral dissertation, which was
published in 1980 by A.S. Barnes as Screenwriter: The Life and Times of
Nunnally Johnson. Mr. Stempel also received his Ph.D. in theater
history from UCLA.
Since 1971, Mr. Stempel has taught film history and screenwriting at Los
Angeles City College, where he is a Professor of Cinema. He is the author
of three other books, including Framework: A History of Screenwriting
in the American Film and Storytellers to the Nation: A History of
American Television Writing. His articles have appeared in
Creative Screenwriting, Film Comment, Sight and Sound, and the
Los Angeles Times.
Mr. Stempel currenty lives in Los Angeles and is the author of several
plays and screenplays, as well as articles and reviews on films and film
making.
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