Born on May 23, 1921, in New York, Gene graduated from City College, received his masters at Columbia University, was a member of the prestigious Writers Workshop at the State University of lowa. Gene began his career as a professor at Wayne State University in Michigan. When he returned to New York he took a job as an editor for Ace Books. He wrote several screenplays and plays including the off-Broadway-produced Go Show Me a Dragon (1960). With his friend Max Gartenberg, he edited The Beat Generation & the Angry Young Men 1958, Citadel Press), an anthology of such writers as Anatole Broyard, Jack Kerouac, Clellon Holmes, J.P. Donleaw, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, and others. A longtime member of the Writer's Guild, in recent years Gene was a member of the Player's Club, and also served as a director and vice-president of the board of 10 West 66th Street, New York, NY.
