Biography
Niven Busch was an American novelist and screenwriter. Born in New York City, he attended Princeton University briefly before joining the staff of Time magazine in the mid-1920s, where he became an associate editor; he also contributed to The New Yorker.
Busch moved to Hollywood in the early 1930s and wrote numerous screenplays. His credits include the story for In Old Chicago (1938), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story, and the screenplay for The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946). He also wrote the novel Duel in the Sun (1944), later filmed, and screenplays for The Westerner (1940) and Pursued (1947).
He was married to actress Teresa Wright from 1942 to 1952. After leaving Hollywood in the early 1950s, Busch settled in northern California, where he wrote further novels and taught at University of California campuses. He died in San Francisco in 1991.
