Known for
Writing
Born
March 20, 1937
Birthplace
Olean, New York, USA
Died
February 24, 2026 (aged 88)
Jeremy Larner (March 20, 1937 — February 24, 2026) was an American screenwriter, author, poet, journalist and speechwriter.
Born in Olean, New York, Larner graduated from Brandeis University in 1958 before writing several books throughout the 1960s, including his debut novel Drive, He Said (1964), which was adapted by co-writer/director Jack Nicholson into a 1971 film. As a journalist, Larner wrote for Harpers, The Paris Review, and Life.
He was a speechwriter for Eugene McCarthy during his 1968 campaign for president, which inspired his book Nobody Knows, serialized for Harpers in ’69, and influenced Larner’s script for Michael Ritchie's The Candidate (1972), which starred Robert Redford...
2006
1972
Writer
1971
Novel, Screenplay