David Shaber

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia David Shaber 1929 November 4 1999 was an American screenwriter and theatre producer best known for writing The Warriors Nighthawks and The Hunt for Red October Shaber was born and raised in Cleveland Ohio and abandoned a premed education for the Yale Drama School He wrote and produced plays and also wrote forty commissioned screenplays eight of which were made into feature films in the 1970s and 1980s In the 1990s he taught advanced screenwriting at Columbia University in New York City He died of an aneurysm on November 4 1999 aged 70 Description above from the Wikipedia article David Shaber licensed under CCBYSAfull list of contributors on Wikipedia