Budd Schulberg Books in Order

Once-celebrated novelist Manley Halliday joins young screenwriter Shep on a Hollywood assignment that takes them back east. Their uneasy partnership exposes the distance between literary ambition and commercial entertainment, as Halliday struggles with decline and disillusionment.

Poetry, essays, stories, and plays by members of the Watts Writers Workshop convey their experiences after the Los Angeles uprising. Edited by Budd Schulberg, the collection brings together voices addressing their community, personal lives, and racial injustice.

Schulberg recalls writers including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanael West, and Sinclair Lewis, examining the pressures surrounding literary achievement. Personal encounters frame an account of how recognition, ambition, and disappointment shaped their work and their lives.

Raised as the son of a powerful studio executive, Schulberg witnessed Hollywood's early decades from the inside. His memoir follows his family through the glamour, upheavals, and personal costs of an industry learning to manufacture dreams.

Schulberg revisits boxing's champions, promoters, and unforgettable personalities, combining ringside observation with personal encounters. His portraits connect the sport's business and social history with the struggles of fighters and his own exchanges with Ernest Hemingway.

Schulberg brings his waterfront drama to the stage with Stan Silverman, revisiting a former boxer's struggle amid corruption on the New York docks. The script includes staging guidance and the author's reflections on the work.

A lifetime of boxing reportage brings together Schulberg's accounts of fighters, promoters, and pivotal contests. Moving across generations of the sport, he explores the ambition, exploitation, courage, and spectacle that surround life inside the ropes.

Twelve stories explore Hollywood through people chasing affection, recognition, and another chance. A boy seeking his producer father's attention and a forgotten silent-film actor are among the characters confronting the industry's promises and disappointments.

These stories follow ambitious strivers and vulnerable outsiders in Hollywood, New York, and beyond. Schulberg examines the lure of recognition and the human cost of success, including the story that inspired A Face in the Crowd.

Budd Schulberg recounts the lives of two swans near his home, with photographs by Geraldine Brooks. Their presence becomes part of the household’s daily experience, bringing the beauty and hazards of the birds’ lives into close view.

An Argentine peasant is brought into professional boxing by promoters who see an opportunity to profit from him. Told through a press agent's involvement, the novel explores manipulation, publicity and exploitation within the corrupt business surrounding the ring.