Henry Denker (born November 25, 1912) is a U.S. novelist and playwright. Denker is a lawyer by training, which shows in many of his works. Seventeen of his novels—more than by any other author—have been selected and published by Reader's Digest Condensed Books. For ten years he was writer, director, and producer of the acclaimed radio television series The Greatest Story Ever Told.
Partial bibliography
Novels
- I'll Be Right Home, Ma (1949)
- My Son, the Lawyer (1950)
- God's Selfless Men (1952)
- Salome, Princess of Galilee (1953)
- Time Limit! (1956)
- That First Easter (1959)
- Give us Barabbas (1961)
- The Director (1971)
- The Kingmaker (1972)
- A Place for the Mighty (1973)
- The Physicians (1975)
- The Experiment (1977)
- The Starmaker (1977)
- The Scofield Diagnosis (1977)
- The Actress (1978)
- Error of Judgement (1979)
- Horowitz and Mrs. Washington (1979)
- The Warfield Syndrome (1982)
- Outrage (1982) (about vigilantism) [1]
- Healers (1983)
- Kincaid (1984)
- Kate Kincaid (1985)
- Robert, My Son (1985)
- Judge Spencer Dissents (1986)
- The Choice (1987) (heartwarming tale of the battle within the soul of a doctor who has forever neglected his child and how he is affected by her death due to a disease he should have foreseen)
- The Judgment (1988)
- The Retreat (1988) (about alcoholism)
- A Gift of Life (1989) (about a heart transplant)
- Payment in Full (1991)
- Doctor on Trial (1992)
- Mrs. Washington And Horowitz, Too (1993)
- Labyrinth (1994) (legal thriller about multiple personalities)
- This Child Is Mine (1995) (battle over custody of a child)
- To Marcy, with Love (1996)
- A Place for Kathy (1997) (about a 12 year-old girl whose mother is diagnosed with HIV)
- Clarence (2001) (told from the point of view of a Golden Retriever)
- Cla$$ Action (2005) (lawyers about to take over all other industries) [2]
Plays
- A Case of Libel (based on Louis Nizer's My Life in Court) (1963)
- A Far Country (1961) (about Sigmund Freud)
- Horowitz and Mrs. Washington (1980)
- The Second Time Around
- Something Old, Somethong New (1977)
- Time Limit! (written with Ralph Berkey) (1956)
- Venus at Large (1962)
- What Did We Do Wrong? (1967)
- The Wound Within (1958)
Screenplays
- Time Limit (1957)
- The Hook (1962)
- Twilight of Honor (1963) (courtroom drama)
- The Only Way Out Is Dead (1970)
- (courtroom drama) (Stanley Kramer, 1975)
- A Time for Miracles (1980) (about Elizabeth Bayley Seton)
External links
- Henry Denker at the Internet Movie Database
- Denker at the Internet Broadway Database
- Denker at doollee.com
- The New York Times
