Saul Levitt

Saul Levitt (March 13, 1911 – 1977) was an American playwright and author, best known for his successful play The Andersonville Trial, based on MacKinlay Kantor's Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel Andersonville. Levitt's play was later made into an Emmy award-winning movie.^[1]

Levitt was born in New York City^[1] and died of heart failure on September 30, 1977.^[2][1]

Levitt served with the United States Army Air Corps in World War II as a B-17 bomber crewman with the 100th Bomb Group,^[3] flying missions against the Third Reich out of Thorpe Abbotts, UK. Early in his tour, he was severely injured in a traffic accident and was transferred to the reporting staff of Yank magazine,^[2] where he wrote and published a number of articles about his group's experiences flying and fighting in the war.

Works

• The Sun is Silent (1951)^[4][3]
• The Andersonville Trial (1960)^[5][6]
• The True Glory (1945)^[7][8]
• A Covenant with Death (1967)^[7]
• The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1972)^[7][9]

Awards

• Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Drama - Adaptation for: The Andersonville Trial (1970) (TV)^[10][11][12]