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Aben Kandel (15 August 1897 – 28 January 1993) was an American screenwriter novelist and (earlier in life) boxer. He was screenwriter on such classic B movies as I Was A Teenage Werewolf Joan Crawford’s final movie Trog and one of Leonard Nimoy’s first starring vehicles Kid Monk Baroni.Kandel had an earlier scandalous success with his gritty b-grade Hollywood novel City for Conquest (1936) which was made into a James Cagney feature in 1940.