Sol Yurick, author of the gang novel “The Warriors,” which spawned a cult film and a video game, died on Saturday of lung cancer, his family said Wednesday. He was 87. Yurick drew on his experiences ...
Sol Yurick, a 1960s radical and novelist whose book “The Warriors” inspired a celebrated cult film of the same name, died Jan. 5 in Brooklyn of complications from lung cancer. He was 87. Through ...
The American novelist Sol Yurick, who has died aged 87, was too radical, too extreme and too violent for the respectable literary establishment of New York, yet no writer more fully embodied the ...
“Sol had a totally different take on things. Whether it was Marxism, Darwinism, Greek mythology, or Jewish mysticism, he was always interconnecting things at so many different levels.” By signing up, ...
Before ‘The Warriors’ was a cult movie — or a Lin-Manuel Miranda album — it had radical Jewish roots
Among the colorful names in The Warriors, Sol Yurick’s 1965 novel of a gang’s overnight odyssey through New York, one stands out. Hinton, The Junior, Lunkface and Bimbo tend to blur together, but ...
Although my only contact with Sol Yurick was a class I took with him at the Brecht Forum in New York in the early 80s, his passing genuinely touched me. For a good overview on his life, I recommend ...
Penned with Eisa Davis, the stage show is adapted from the 1979 film and Sol Yurick's 1965 book ...
NEW YORK — Sol Yurick — a writer whose best-known work, the 1965 novel ‘‘The Warriors,’’ recast an ancient Greek battle as a tale of warring New York street gangs and earned a cult following in print, ...
The Warrior (1979) was directed by Walter Hill. The author of the book, Sol Yurick, died aged 87, on 5 January Solomon Yurick, who was best known for his cult 1965 novel The Warriors, which recast an ...
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