He was active as a screenwriter from the early 1950s to the early 1990s. Three of his screenplays were nominated for Academy Awards, but he is probably best known for a work that never made it to the screen -- his unproduced original script "Harrow Alley."
Walter Newman died in Sherman Oaks, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, on 14 October 1993.
As is now customary, Sir Walter's birthday on Wednesday 15th.August will be recognized with a small ceremony outside the entrance to the Writers' Museum, Lady Stair's Close, Lawnmarket, at 12.30 pm.
Gifford (University of Glasgow) is Honorary Librarian of Scott’s Library at Abbotsford and Director of the Abbotsford Library Research Project Trust, a joint venture of The Advocate's Library in Edinburgh and The University of Glasgow, which is stockchecking Scott's Library, publishing unpublished material, and undertaking further research into Scott's book collection.
Peter Garside is Professor of Bibliography and Textual Studies at the University of Edinburgh and was the founding Chair of the Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research at Cardiff University.
Christopher Newman is the protagonist of Henry James's 1877 novel The American.
The Newmans (Victor, Nikki, Nick, Victoria) are long-time characters in the U.S. soap opera The Young and the Restless.
Newman (first name not disclosed, played by Wayne Knight) was a minor (but large), recurring character from the U.S. sitcom Seinfeld (see Minor characters in Seinfeld).
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