Eugene Vale
Eugene Vale (11 April 1916 - 2 May 1997) was a best-selling American novelist. He was also a screenwriter, a playwright, and the author of an influential volume on screenwriting, titled "Craft of the Screenwriter". In this book Vale provided many rules for writing screenplays to include the admonition that the "primary purpose of every film scene is the orchestration of human emotion" - whether it be fear, laughter, compassion, hatred or empathy. This the arbiter against which every scene must be judged.
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His debut novel, The 13th Apostle (pub. 1959) was reviewed favorably in the New York Times. The reviewer said in part "Mr. Vale is the only contemporary novelist of recent years, to my knowledge, who has made so ambitious an attempt to encompass in a single fabric every clue to modern man's devious retreat from engagement.
The novel immediately following, Chaos Below Heaven (pub. 1966), was a best seller also.
