Eugene Walter: Last of the Bohemians

Join us for a screening of Eugene Walter: Last of the Bohemians, a documentary by Robert Clem, on Wednesday November 12, at 3 p.m. in the Special Collections and Archives department of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.

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Last of the Bohemians documents the life and career of writer, poet, actor, artist and raconteur Eugene Walter. Born in Mobile in 1921, Walter lived at the hub of 20^th-century cultural life, first in New York and later in Paris and Rome. He collaborated with George Plimpton and others in founding the Paris Review, edited Europe's preeminent multilingual literary journal Botteghe Oscure, and worked with film director Federico Fellini as a set and costume designer, translator, actor and songwriter.  His books include the now classic Time Life volume on Southern cuisine, a Lippincott Fiction Prize winning novel, The Untidy Pilgrim, and many other works.



Film director Robert Clem previously produced a documentary film on Mobile author William March, along with a feature dramatization of March's Company K being released by Indican Pictures in February.  He also directed an award-winning 1997 documentary on Big Jim Folsom and the recent John Patterson: In the Wake of the Assassins, which aired on Alabama Public Television in June 2007.

Eugene Walter: Last of the Bohemians was funded in part by a grant from the Alabama Humanities Foundation, a state program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, with additional support from the Sybil Smith Charitable Trust, A.S. Mitchell Foundation, M.W. Smith Foundation, Malbis Memorial Foundation and Ben May Foundation.