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About Ernest Gebler
Ernest Gebler (31 December 1914 to 26 January 1998), sometimes credited as Ernie Gebler, was an Irish writer of Czech origin.
biography
From http://aosdana.artscouncil.ie/Members/Literature/Gebler-(1).aspx
Born in Dublin in 1915, he was a novelist and playwright, and also wrote for film and television. He worked backstage in the Gate Theatre in the 1930s. He was married for a time to novelist Edna O'Brien and Carlo Gebler, novelist and member of Aosdana, is their son. His principal novels are He had my Heart Scalded; The Voyage of the Mayflower (1950), which was filmed and sold five million copies; A Week in the Country; The Love Investigator; The Old Man and the Girl; and Hoffman (published in UK as Shall I Eat You?). His plays include She Sits Smiling; The Spaniards in Galway; Eileen O'Roon; A Cry for Help; and Call Me Daddy. His screenplays include Hoffman; and The Lonely Girl, (an adaptation of Edna O'Brien's Girl With Green Eyes). His television drama includes Call Me Daddy, Women Can be Monsters; Why Aren't You Famous (an adaptation of Eileen O'Roon); Where Will I find what will Change my Life?; and A Little Milk of Human Kindness. He received an American Academy Award for his television drama Call Me Daddy.
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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Gebler_
Gebler was born in Dublin, one of five children of Adolf (or Adolphe) Gebler , a shopkeeper and musician of Czech Jewish origin who had married a Dublin theatre usherette.The family moved to Wolverhampton in 1925
He was first married to Leatrice Gilbert, daughter of the actors John Gilbert and Leatrice Joy, whom he met on a trip to Hollywood. The couple moved to Ireland, got married and had a son John Karl (called Karl by Ernest but John by his mother). They were divorced in 1952, and mother and baby returned to America
In Dublin in 1952 Gebler met future novelist Edna O'Brien, then working in a pharmacist's shop. After opposition from O'Brien's family, they moved to England, married in 1954, and had two sons, Karl (later Carlo) and Sasha, who became respectively a writer and an architect. O'Brien's literary career eclipsed Gebler's after her debut novel The Country Girls in 1960. The couple separated in 1964 and divorced in 1968, with O'Brien eventually getting sole custody of the children. Both O'Brien and Carlo Gebler later wrote about Ernest's cruelty to the family.
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From http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/02/books/the-tyrant.html
Words did not come easily from Ernest. They flowed from Edna. Her work, much of it about Ireland and what it did to its women, began to draw attention, then acclaim. And that was too much for Ernest. Though he may have helped her get started, he evidently believed that his influence had been far stronger: Carlo writes that when Edna received a payment from her publisher, his father insisted she sign it over to him. She did, and left him.
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Ernest Gebler's Timeline
| 1914 |
December 31, 1914
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Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
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| 1998 |
January 26, 1998
Age 83
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Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
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