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Clancy Sigal (September 6, 1926 – July 16, 2017) was an American writer, and the author of dozens of essays and seven books, the best-known of which is the autobiographical novel Going Away (1961).
Jul 21, 2017 · A hamburger-joint proprietor who wanted to be a writer-director. A one-book novelist from Chattanooga who wasn’t quite sure what he wanted to do in Hollywood but was sure that...
If Fielding's Tom Jones were alive in post-war England he might have been Clancy Sigal, the American author of this restlessly curious memoir. Honest and devious, faithful and lustful, a mass of plucky contradictions, Clancy first arrived in London in 1957.
Jul 22, 2017 · In his 90 adventurous years, until his death July 16 in Los Angeles, Clancy Sigal led a life overflowing with action, famous names, firings, breakups and a vision of America — at once earnest ...
- Matt Schudel
Jul 16, 2017 · Clancy Sigal was the child of a love affair between two idealists. His parents Jennie Persily and Leo Sigal were labor organizers. Jennie, a single mother, raised Clancy on her own. Chicago-born, he was an ordinary street kid until the army sent him overseas.
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Jul 20, 2017 · When he was blacklisted in Hollywood, Clancy Sigal got in his car, pulled out of L.A. and drove toward New York in a soul-searching journey across the back roads of America.
A PEN Lifetime Achievement award winner and National Book Award runner up, I am a Professor Emeritus at the Annenberg School of Journalism, University of Southern California. I have lectured at Oxford, Cambridge, the London School of Economics, and Eton College.
