Gerold Frank

Gerold Frank
Born(1907-08-02)August 2, 1907
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
DiedSeptember 17, 1998(1998-09-17) (aged 91)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation
  • Writer
  • ghostwriter
Alma materOhio State University
Notable awardsEdgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime (x2)
SpouseLilian Frank
Children2

Gerold Frank (August 2, 1907 – September 17, 1998) was an American writer and ghostwriter. He wrote several celebrity memoirs and was considered a pioneer of the "as told to" form of (auto)biography. His two best-known books,[citation needed] however, are The Boston Strangler (1966), which was adapted as the 1968 movie starring Tony Curtis and Henry Fonda, and An American Death (1972), about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.