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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
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Average rating: 3.76 · 330 ratings · 56 reviews · 30 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Big Kiss-Off of 1944: A...

3.66 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 1974 — 20 editions
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Hollywood and LeVine

3.78 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1975 — 25 editions
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We're in the Money: Depress...

3.91 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1971 — 11 editions
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Tender Is Levine: A Jack Le...

3.74 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2001 — 11 editions
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James Cagney

3.63 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1973 — 6 editions
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Social Security

3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1966 — 9 editions
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The Jack LeVine Trilogy: Th...

3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions
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Sleepless Nights

3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1994
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The Big Kiss-Off of 1944

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The Jack Levine Trilogy: Th...

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