Overview
- His son, Jesse, confirmed that Larner died on February 24 at a nursing facility in Oakland, California.
- A cause of death was not disclosed, though the family noted a 2013 Parkinson’s diagnosis and a lymphoma diagnosis in January.
- Larner won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Candidate (1972), drawing on his work for Senator Eugene McCarthy’s 1968 presidential campaign.
- He wrote the 1964 novel Drive, He Said, later adapted into a 1971 film directed by Jack Nicholson.
- Before and beyond film, he wrote for Life, Harper’s, The Paris Review and The New Republic, and he is survived by his sons, Jesse and Zachary, and his brother, Daniel.