Eric S. Hatch (October 31, 1901 - July 4, 1973) was an American writer on the staff of The New Yorker and a novelist and screenwriter best known for his novels 1101 Park Avenue, (which became the hit 1936 film, My Man Godfrey) and The Year of the Horse (adapted as the 1968 Disney comedy, The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit).July 6, 1973 New York Times article on the death of Eric Hatch
Biography
Born in New York City, Eric was the son of May D. Hatch and her husband Frederic H. Hatch, owner of a successful Wall Street stock brokerage firm he founded in 1888. Eric was the younger brother of biographer Alden Hatch.
Boucher and McComas praised his 1950 fantasy The Beautiful Bequest, saying it had "the zestful appeal of a good novel from the lamented Unknown.""Recommended Reading," F&SF, Summer 1950, p.107
Eric Hatch died in Torrington, Connecticut at age seventy-one.
Bibliography A Couple of Quick Ones, 1928 Romance Prescribed, 1930 Lover's Loot, 1931 Five Days, 1933 Road Show, 1934 Fly By Night, 1935 1101 Park Avenue, also known as My Man Godfrey, 1935 Good Old Jack, 1937 Unexpected Uncle, 1941 Words and Music, 1943 The Unexpected Warrior, 1947 The Beautiful Bequest, 1950 Crockett's Woman, 1951 The Golden Woman, 1952 A Guide to Historic Sites in Connecticut, 1963 The Judge and the Junior Exhibitor, 1964 The Little Book of Bells, 1964 The Year of the Horse, 1965 The Colonel's Ladies, 1968 Two and Two is Six, 1969 What Goes on in Horses' Heads, 1970
Screenplays 1931: Sidewalks of New York 1936: My Man Godfrey 1937: Topper 1951: Kelly episode of Kraft Television Theatre 1957: My Man Godfrey 1968: The Horse in the Grey Flannel Suit
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