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Andrew Bergman

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Mystery & Thrillers

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Andrew Bergman is a successful comedy screenwriter and occasional author of hard-boiled mysteries. After receiving a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bergman sold Tex X, a novella about a black sheriff in the old west, to Warner Brothers. The studio hired him to turn his story into a screenplay, as part of a team of comedy legends led by Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor. The result was Blazing Saddles (1974), which is widely regarded as one of the funniest films of all time.

After that early success, Bergman published the first two novels in a mystery series starring Jack LeVine, a hard-boiled Jewish PI. After The Big Kiss-Off of 1944 (1974) and Hollywood and LeVine (1975), he continued writing and directing f...more

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Books by Andrew Bergman

Average rating: 3.54 · 37 ratings · 7 reviews · 10 distinct works

	We're in the Money: Depression America and It's Films 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1979 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Big Kiss-Off of 1944: A Jack LeVine Mystery 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1974 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Hollywood and LeVine 3.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1975 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Tender Is Levine 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Sleepless Nights 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	James Cagney 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Social Security: A Play in Two Acts 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1966	My rating:
	Tender Is LeVine: A Jack LeVine Mystery 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Hollywood and LeVine: A Jack LeVine Mystery 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	The Big Kiss-Off of 1944: A Jack LeVine Mystery 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating: