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Curt Siodmak


Born
in Dresden, Germany
August 10, 1902

Died
September 02, 2000

Genre
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror


Curt Siodmak (1902–2000) was a novelist and screenwriter, author of the novel Donovan's Brain, which was made into a number of films. He also wrote the novels Hauser's Memory and Gabriel's Body.

Born Kurt Siodmak in Dresden, Germany, Curt Siodmak acquired a degree in mathematics before beginning to write novels. He invested early royalties earned by his first books in the movie Menschen am Sonntag (1929), a documentary-style chronicle of the lives of four Berliners on a Sunday based on their own lives. The movie was co-directed by Curt Siodmak's older brother Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer, with a script by Billy Wilder.

In the following years Curt Siodmak wrote many novels, screenplays and short stories including the novel F.P.1 Antwortet ...more

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Average rating: 3.68 · 751 ratings · 123 reviews · 62 distinct works • Similar authors
Donovan's Brain
3.75 avg rating — 522 ratings — published 1942 — 43 editions
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Hauser's Memory
3.46 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1968 — 14 editions
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The Third Ear
3.37 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1971 — 10 editions
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City in the Sky
3.25 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1974 — 12 editions
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Donovan's Brain/Hauser's Me...
3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1992
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Skyport
3.47 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1959 — 9 editions
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Riders to the Stars
3.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1953 — 7 editions
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Wolf Man's Maker: Memoir of...
3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions
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Gabriel's Body
3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions
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The Warmest Memory
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Series by Curt Siodmak

Donovan's Brain Hauser's Memory Gabriel's Body
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“Even a man who is pure in heart,
And says his prayers by night,
May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms,
And the moon is full and bright.”
― Curt Siodmak
tags: darkness, moon, night, wolf
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“I've given up listening to people. What can they tell me that is so much more to the point than what I've always known? All the mistakes in my life came from accepting advice.”
― Curt Siodmak, Gabriel's Body
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