Avery Corman

Avery Corman is a Bronx-born author (1935) whose memoir of his growing up years in the Bronx of the 1940s and 1950s, My Old Neighborhood Remembered, was published by Barricade Books. He is the author of the novels, Kramer vs. Kramer (the basis for the Academy Award-winning Best Picture), Oh, God! (the basis for the hit movie comedy starring George Burns), The Bust-Out King, The Old Neighborhood, 50, Prized Possessions, The Big Hype, A Perfect Divorce, The Boyfriend from Hell. He has served on the board of directors of New York's City Parks Foundation since its inception in 1989.