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Robert Littell (b. 1935)

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Birthplace:
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Born:
January 8, 1935

Biography from TheMovieDB

Robert Littell (born January 8, 1935) is an American novelist and former journalist in Flives. He specialises in spy novels that often concern the CIA and the Soviet Union.  Robert Littell was born in Brooklyn, New York, on January 8, 1935, to a Jewish family of Russian Jewish origin. He is a 1956 graduate of Alfred University in western New York. He spent four years in the U.S. Navy. He sometimes served as his ship's navigator, antisubmarine warfare officer, communications officer, and deck watch officer.  Later, Littell became a journalist and worked for Newsweek for many years during the Cold War. He was a foreign correspondent for the magazine from 1965 to 1970.  Littell is an amateur mountain climber and is the father of award-winning novelist Jonathan Littell. His brother, Alan Littell (born 1929), is also an author and journalist.  He is the brother-in-law of the French writer Bernard du Boucheron.  Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Littell (author), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Film Production

Novel:
1981  The Amateur
2025  The Amateur

Screenplay:
1981  The Amateur
2025  The Amateur

Writer:
1981  The Amateur
1988  Zits
2025  The Amateur

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TV Production

Adaptation:
1972  Festival of Family Classics

Novel:
1972  Festival of Family Classics
2007  The Company
2014  Legends

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