The Martin Field Collection contains creative writing, correspondence, journal and magazine publications, and a newspaper clipping scrapbook covering the author’s work as a writer and screenwriter.

Martin Field was born on December 19, 1914 in Newark, New Jersey. He worked as a playwright for the Federal Theatre Project under the WPA during the Depression, before moving to Los Angeles in 1945 to become a screenwriter. Along with co-writer Aubrey Wisberg, Field wrote the 1955 noir film Murder Is My Beat. He also wrote for publications including Variety, the Jewish Advocate, and B’nai B’rith Messenger, running a column called “Movie Score.” As a longtime member of the Screen Writers’ Guild, he served on the editorial board for their publication The Screen Writer. Field died on September 5, 2001 and was survived by ex-wife Helen Colton and children Mona and Corey.

1 linear foot, 1 box

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