Josh Greenfeld
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Josh Greenfeld (born 1928) is an author and screenwriter mostly known for his screenplay for the 1974 film Harry and Tonto along with Paul Mazursky which earned them an Academy Award Nomination and Art Carney, the Oscar itself for Best Actor. Greenfeld also wrote Oh, God! Book II and the TV Special "Lovey" and is the author of several books about his autistic son, Noah.
The trilogy, "A Child Called Noah" and "A Place for Noah" and "A Client Called Noah" detail the effects that Noah's disabilities place on the Greenfelds and the extraordinary lengths that the family went through to find the very best care available for their son. His wife, the Japanese Fumiko Kometani is also a writer and has won the Akutagawa Prize, Japan's most prestigious literary award, and also written about their son and his developmental disability. His other son, Karl Taro Greenfeld, currently a special contributor to Portfolio and Details, is the author of "China Syndrome," "Speed Tribes," and "Standard Deviations."
Among Josh Greenfeld's plays are "Clandestine on the Morning Line," "I Have a Dream," and "The Last Two Jews of Kabul," and "Canal Street." His novels include "O for a Master of Magic," "The Return of Mr. Hollywood," and "What Happened Was This".
