| Author | Budd Schulberg |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Hollywood |
Publication date | 1950 |
| Publication place | USA |
The Disenchanted is a 1950 American novel by Budd Schulberg.
The novel is about a young screenwriter, Shep, who collaborates on a screenplay about a college winter festival with a famous novelist, Manley Halliday, who was successful in the 1920s but is now considered over the hill. It was reportedly based on Schulberg's experiences writing the film Winter Carnival with F. Scott Fitzgerald.[1]
Sheilah Graham wrote the novel contained "a one-dimensional portrait of Scott. It showed him at his very worst, whining, antagonistic, boastful, exhausted. It simply was not true. When he was drunk, perhaps, but Budd had also seen Scott sober... He was not the miserable man in Schulberg’s book. How could Budd, who professed to love Scott, who seemed to regard himself as his heir, present such a dreadful image of him to the world?"[2]