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Xerographic manuscript, 253 pp, entitled, Unfinished Ruminations by Curt Siodmak, with the subheading, "a writer's life, not always to his liking" featured on the cover. Curt Siodmak was a prolific screenwriter, novelist, and director, best known for writing science fiction/horror films such as The Wolf Man (1941), I Walked With a Zombie (1943), and Donovan's Brain (1953). Siodmak gave this unpublished biography to a couple with whom he spent time in his later years. In it, he ruminates about being the offspring of an unhappy union and how he did not feel loved as a child. He escaped through his imagination and writing, which he called "a cure for loneliness." Siodmak also discusses the rocky relationship with his brother, director Robert Siodmak, and reminisces about some Hollywood notables: "I saw John Huston frequently at my home. We played chess but I could hardly afford that relation since he went through a bottle of my Scottish whiskey in one sitting. So did the actor Humphrey Bogart, his close friend, who also was a chess aficionado. Bogart was even speedier in drinking my scotch than John." A friend once said to Siodmak of his writing, "You are writing about people who want to climb to the top of the mountain, but never get there--that is the theme of all your books," to which Siodmak responded, "But it also is the outcome of everybody's struggle in life." 9 x 11.5 x 2.5 in.