American satirical novelist, playwright, and crime writer, best known for his thrillers The Manchurian Candidate (1959) and Prizzi's Honor (1982). Condon ridiculed among other things American politics, President Ronald Reagan, the U.S. Mafia, Hollywood agents, and fast-food business, all representing interconnected aspects of the same mad reality. Several of his novels have been turned into well-regarded movies. His debut novel, The Oldest Confession (1958), was made into a movie (THE HAPPY THIEVES) starring Rita Hayworth and Rex Harrison in 1962 while The Manchurian Candidate was filmed by John Frankenheimer in 1962. Condon himself adapted his novel Prizzi's Honor to the screen for John Huston in 1985. Born in New York City, he was educated in public schools and served in the United States Merchant Navy. He worked briefly in advertising and then from 1936 as a publicist in the American film industry for 21 years, among others for Walt Disney Productions, Hal Horne Organization, Twentieth-Century Fox, Richard Condon Inc., and other firms. Condon, his wife, and two daughters lived in France, Spain, Ireland, and Switzerland. He died in Dallas, TX at the age of 81.  Nominated for Writing (Best Screenplay based on material from another medium) 1985: PRIZZI'S HONOR (w. Janet Roach) 1 nomination