WILLINGHAM, CALDER
From Knob Knowledge
1922-1995. Famous author who attended The Citadel in 1940. He based his first book, End as a Man (PS3545 .I4565 E5 1947), on his life at The Citadel. It was later made into the 1957 film, The Strange One, starring Ben Gazzara, George Peppard, and Pat Hingle. He went on to write other well-known novels and screenplays. Among his more famous were One-Eyed Jacks, Little Big Man, The Graduate, and The Vikings. (Sources: Twentieth Century Authors: First Supplement, pp. 1091-2, REF PN771 .K86; "End as a Man," Book Review Digest 1947, REFERENCE; Dictionary of Literary Biography, vols. 2 and 44. REF PN501 .D5) (HN)
