The celebrated novel of the prize ring that has lost none of its power since its first publication almost fifty years ago. "The quintessential novel of boxing and corruption."-USA Today.
Budd Schulberg is also the author of What Makes Sammy Run?, The Disenchanted, Sparring with Hemingway, On the Waterfront (play and screenplay), and Moving Pictures: Memories of a Hollywood Prince. He lives in Westhampton Beach, New York.