Norman Lessing
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Born | Norman Lessing June 24, 1911 New York, New York, U.S. |
Died | October 22, 2001 Santa Monica, California, U.S. | (aged 90)
Occupation | Academic, screenwriter, producer, playwright |
Norman Lessing (June 24, 1911 – October 22, 2001) was an American television screenwriter and producer, playwright, chess master, and chess writer.
Biography
Lessing grew up in New York City, and played a great deal of chess as a youth, reaching national master strength. He was
Lessing wrote actively for television from its pioneering days in 1950 in New York, and moved to
He also wrote the play 36, which was performed all over the United States.
Lessing, along with
He died at age 90, of congestive heart failure and complications from Parkinson's disease. At the time of his death, Lessing was working on a book about his chess experiences, to be titled The Stuyvesant Chess Club. He was remembered thus in the United States Chess Federation's news summary: "Norman Lessing was the last link to the Golden Age of Coffeehouse Chess."[5]
References
- Sam Sloan.
- ^ The World of Chess, by Anthony Saidy and Norman Lessing, New York 1974, Random House.
- ^ http://www.chessdryad.com/articles/wall/art_07.htm, California Chess in the 1960s, by Bill Wall.
- ^ Norman Lessing
- ^ http://www.uschess.org/org/govern Archived 2008-09-25 at the Wayback Machine.