Terry Southern was born in Alvarado, Texas, on 1 May 1924. He was educated at Southern Methodist University, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, where he received his B.A. in 1948, and the Sorbonne, where he studied from 1948 to 1950....

Texas-born writer Terry Southern is best remembered for the wildly written satires—usually featuring a Candide-esque heroine—that earned him acclaim in the early 1960s. Southern also cut a wide swathe through the 1960s film world. His...

Terry Southern (May 1, 1924–October 29, 1995) was a highly influential American short story writer, novelist, essayist, screenwriter and university lecturer noted for his distinctive satirical style. He was part of the Paris postwar literary...

"The important thing in writing is . . . to astonish," the satirical novelist and screenwriter Terry Southern remarked in 1964, in a Life magazine interview, around the time his notorious girl-can't-help-it frolic Candy was first published, unexpurgated in the United States. "Not shock...

Southern Terry, the Griffin, GA-based towel maker recently acquired by former executives of Dundee Mills, broke ground for a new addition to its Griffin plant. Construction of the 45,000-sq.-ft. addition that will consist of a manufacturing plant and new offices is projected to be...

Stuck in that weird intersection between the death throes of the old Hollywood and the birth pangs of the new, The Loved One, Tony Richardson’s 1965 film of Evelyn Waugh’s satire of famed Los Angeles cemetery Forest Lawn, remains one of the strangest mainstream American...

Stuck in that weird intersection between the death throes of the old Hollywood and the birth pangs of the new, The Loved One, Tony Richardson’s 1965 film of Evelyn Waugh’s satire of famed Los Angeles cemetery Forest Lawn, remains one of the strangest mainstream American...