He was a mid-century fixture of the D.C. social scene, and a prolific novelist sought after by Hollywood producers.
By Harrison Smith Harrison Smith Obituary writer Email Bio Follow April 23 at 6:48 PM Warren Adler, a best-selling author who chronicled dysfunction and duplicity, most notably in his divorce novel “The War of the Roses,” a dark comedy that served as the basis of a hit film, died April 15 at his home in Manhattan. He was 91.A mid-century fixture of the Washington social scene, Mr.
“I’ve become a specialist in wrecked relations,” he told the New York Times in 1991. “My turf is the never-ending battle of the sexes that goes on to the grave.” He faced a quarter-century’s worth of rejections before publishing his first novel, “Options” , in 1974. Quitting the ad industry to write full time, he found his greatest success with “The War of the Roses” , which tracked the implosion of Jonathan and Barbara Rose’s once-perfect marriage.
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“Defend the book?” Mr. Adler wrote in a 1999 piece for the Times. “I imagined I could hear its pleading voice from the constipated bowels of the studio: ‘Dummy. What did you get me into?’ For that, I had no defense.” Mr. Adler studied English at New York University, receiving a bachelor’s degree in 1947, and during the Korean War he served as Washington correspondent for the Armed Forces Press Service.
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