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Jay Dratler (1911-1968) was a screenwriter and novelist. Born in New York City after attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the late 1920s he transferred to a college in France where he became fluent in French and German. Cashing in on his exceptional language skills on his return to the United States he become a successful screenwriter and novelist. He was considered very influential during the classic era of film noir in the 1940s.