Biography
Daniel Fuchs (25 June 1909 – 26 July 1993) was an American screenwriter, novelist and essayist. Born to a Jewish family on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, he moved with his family to Williamsburg, Brooklyn as an infant. He published three early novels with Vanguard Press: Summer in Williamsburg (1934), Homage to Blenholt (1936) and Low Company (1937). He also contributed short stories and essays, many to The New Yorker.
At the age of 26 he moved to Los Angeles to work in films. His screenplays include Criss Cross (1949), Panic in the Streets (1950), Storm Warning (1951) and Love Me or Leave Me (1955). He received an Academy Award for Best Story for the latter. Fuchs died in Los Angeles. In 1995 he received a posthumous screenplay credit, with Steven Soderbergh, on the remake The Underneath.
