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Clancy Sigal
Clancy Sigal was born and raised in Chicago, the son of two labor organizers. He enlisted in the army and, as a GI in occupied Germany, attended the Nuremberg war crimes trials int...view moreClancy Sigal was born and raised in Chicago, the son of two labor organizers. He enlisted in the army and, as a GI in occupied Germany, attended the Nuremberg war crimes trials intending to shoot Herman Göring. Although blacklisted and trailed by FBI agents, he began work as a Hollywood agent on the Sunset Strip, hiding in plain sight and representing Humphrey Bogart, among many others.
Sigal moved to London in the 1950s and stayed in the UK for thirty years, writing and broadcasting regularly from the same BBC studios that George Orwell had used. During the Vietnam War, he was the “stationmaster” of a London safe house for American GI deserters and draft dodgers. For several years, he collaborated with the radical “anti-psychiatrists” R. D. Laing and David Cooper, with whom he founded Kingsley Hall in London’s East End, a halfway house for so-called incurable cases.
Sigal’s most recent book was the memoir Black Sunset: Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal, and Raging Egos (Soft Skull Press, 2016).view less
Books by Clancy Sigal
Going Away: A Report, a Memoir Zone of the Interior: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Weekend in Dinlock: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hemingway Lives!: Why Reading Ernest Hemingway Matters Today Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Secret Defector: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlack Sunset: Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal, and Raging Egos Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The London Lover: My Weekend that Lasted Thirty Years Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5