Writer, playwright, and antique dealer, born in London, UK. He studied at Cambridge. His publications in the art domain include a study of Josiah Wedgwood, and The Concise Encyclopedia of English Pottery and Porcelain (1957). His fiction includes the novel A Kid for Two Farthings (1953), the play The Bespoke Overcoat (1954), the films The Millionairess (1960), The Long, the Short, and the Tall (1961), and Casino Royale (1967), and the musicals Expresso Bongo (19589), Pickwick (1963), and Stand and Deliver! (1972). Later works include the novels Gioconda (1987) and A Night with Casanova (1991).
Wolf Mankowitz (born November 7, 1924 - May 20, 1998) was an English writer, playwright and screenwriter. A Kid for Two Farthings was published as a novel and then adapted into a film by the director Carol Reed, for which Mankowitz himself wrote the screenplay.
Mankowitz's wife Ann was a psychoanalyst.
Mankowitz died of cancer in 1998, in County Cork, Ireland.
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