- Henry Denker
Henry Denker (born
November 25 ,1912 ) is an American novelist and playwright. Denker is a lawyer by training, which shows in many of his works.Seventeen of his novels—more than by any other author—have been selected and published by "
Reader's Digest Condensed Books". For ten years he was writer, director, and producer of the acclaimed radio television series "The Greatest Story Ever Told ".Partial bibliography
Novels
*"I'll Be Right Home, Ma" (1949)
*"My Son, the Lawyer" (1950)
*"God's Selfless Men" (1952)
*"Salome, Princess of Galilee" (1953)
*"Time Limit!" (1956)
*"That First Easter" (1959)
*"Give us Barabbas" (1961)
*"The Director " (1971)
*"The Kingmaker" (1972)
*"A Place for the Mighty" (1973)
*"The Physicians" (1975)
*"The Experiment" (1977)
*"The Starmaker" (1977)
*"The Scofield Diagnosis" (1977)
*"The Actress" (1978)
*"Error of Judgement" (1979)
*"Horowitz and Mrs. Washington" (1979)
*"The Warfield Syndrome" (1982)
*"Outrage" (1982) (aboutvigilantism ) [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE3D71F3FF931A35750C0A960948260]
*"Healers" (1983)
*"Kincaid" (1984)
*"Kate Kincaid" (1985)
*"Robert, My Son" (1985)
*"Judge Spencer Dissents" (1986)
*"The Choice" (1987) (heartwarming tale of the battle within the soul of a doctor who has forever neglected his child and how he is affected by her death due to a disease he should have foreseen)
*"The Judgment" (1988)
*"The Retreat" (1988) (aboutalcoholism )
*"A Gift of Life" (1989) (about aheart transplant )
*"Payment in Full" (1991)
*"Doctor on Trial" (1992)
*"Mrs. Washington And Horowitz, Too" (1993)
*"Labyrinth" (1994) (legal thriller aboutmultiple personalities )
*"This Child Is Mine" (1995) (battle overcustody of a child)
*"To Marcy, with Love" (1996)
*"A Place for Kathy" (1997) (about a 12 year-old girl whose mother is diagnosed withHIV )
*"Clarence" (2001) (told from the point of view of aGolden Retriever )
*"Cla$$ Action" (2005) (lawyers about to take over all other industries) [http://www.buy.com/prod/gsm/cla+action/q/loc/106/202134483.html]Plays
* "
A Case of Libel " (based onLouis Nizer 's "My Life in Court ") (1963)
* "A Far Country" (1961) (aboutSigmund Freud )
* "Horowitz and Mrs. Washington " (1980)
*"The Second Time Around "
*"Something Old, Somethong New " (1977)
*"Time Limit! " (written withRalph Berkey ) (1956)
*"Venus at Large " (1962)
*"What Did We Do Wrong? " (1967)
*"The Wound Within " (1958)creenplays
*"Time Limit" (1957)
*"The Hook " (1962)
*"Twilight of Honor " (1963) (courtroom drama )
*"The Only Way Out Is Dead " (1970)
*"" (courtroom drama) (Stanley Kramer , 1975)
*"A Time for Miracles " (1980) (aboutElizabeth Bayley Seton )External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0219281/ Henry Denker] at the
Internet Movie Database
* [http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=6231 Denker] at theInternet Broadway Database
* [http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsD/DenkerHenry.htm Denker] atdoollee.com
* [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=159719 "The New York Times"]__NOTOC__
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