Jeremy Larner Dies: Oscar-Winning ‘The Candidate’ Writer Was 88

Jeremy Larner, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of the acclaimed 1972 film 'The Candidate,' has passed away at the age of 88. According to his son Jesse Larner, who spoke with The New York Times, Larner died on February 24 in a nursing facility in Oakland, California. Though he had been diagnosed with lymphoma in January and had been living with Parkinson's disease since 2013, no specific cause of death was immediately disclosed. Larner's career spanned several decades, with his most celebrated work capturing the political disillusionment of 1970s America through the lens of a fictional presidential campaign. Beyond his screenwriting achievements, Larner was also a poet, novelist, and professor, contributing significantly to American cultural discourse during his lifetime. His death marks the end of an era for those who chronicled the American political landscape through film and literature.