A.R. Langer
- Writer
A lifelong artist and writer, A. R. Langer (Audrey R. Langer) was born in the Bronx, New York City, in February, 1929, the daughter of Gertrude (née Saphire) and Louis Langer. A precocious student, she advanced quickly in school. By the time she was 12, she had produced drawings and paintings of most of her favorite schoolteachers and friends at Herman Ridder Junior High School. Upon graduating from James Monroe High School as Valedictorian at age 15, she was voted "Class Bookworm" because of her love of literature, near fluency in German and French, and skill in written composition. Although she was offered scholarships to several private universities, she declined them. Instead, she attended night school at City College of New York and took various jobs in order to help support her disabled parents. It was while working at a publishing company in Manhattan that she confirmed her special passion and talent for writing and storytelling. Colleagues and friends encouraged Audrey to pursue her dream of joining the world of Hollywood as a screenwriter.
Moving to Los Angeles in 1955, Audrey worked as a writer-illustrator for H. D. Ballenger at Hollywood's Crossroads of the World, studied television script writing with G. Gordon Dewey (Science Fiction author; "Space Patrol"), and wrote several screenplays and shooting scripts about historical and political subjects. In 1960 she was thrilled to see one of her stories, "The Test," produced on live television on the June Allyson Show. With ideas for several new screenplays already in mind, she looked forward to continued success.
Love, loss, and new life intervened, and Audrey went on to raise a daughter and attend to her elderly parents by herself. Unfortunately, a continuing career in screenwriting was not meant to be. However, between parenting, working an 8 to 5 job, care-giving, and intermittent periods of oil painting, she continued to write stories based on the events surrounding the World War Two era and its aftermath. During the 1980's she produced two historical fiction novels: "Ashes Under Uricon" and "The Woman, Inge." Soon thereafter she co-authored additional novels, two with Santa Barbara writer Kurt B. Fischel, "Jihad!" and "Counterparts", and another with Roger E. Sargeant, "The Cradled and the Called."
Later in life, Audrey returned to fine art with newfound passion. A true artist, she was inspired by the diverse people, images, and events she encountered, and produced many colorful portraits, nature scenes, and urban landscapes. She continued oil painting until well into the last year of her life.
Audrey R. Langer passed away in March 2008, leaving a daughter, Margot Lisa Miglins, Ph.D., and a son-in-law, Steven A. Fagerquist, a Special Visual Effects Compositor, as well as many loving friends.
Moving to Los Angeles in 1955, Audrey worked as a writer-illustrator for H. D. Ballenger at Hollywood's Crossroads of the World, studied television script writing with G. Gordon Dewey (Science Fiction author; "Space Patrol"), and wrote several screenplays and shooting scripts about historical and political subjects. In 1960 she was thrilled to see one of her stories, "The Test," produced on live television on the June Allyson Show. With ideas for several new screenplays already in mind, she looked forward to continued success.
Love, loss, and new life intervened, and Audrey went on to raise a daughter and attend to her elderly parents by herself. Unfortunately, a continuing career in screenwriting was not meant to be. However, between parenting, working an 8 to 5 job, care-giving, and intermittent periods of oil painting, she continued to write stories based on the events surrounding the World War Two era and its aftermath. During the 1980's she produced two historical fiction novels: "Ashes Under Uricon" and "The Woman, Inge." Soon thereafter she co-authored additional novels, two with Santa Barbara writer Kurt B. Fischel, "Jihad!" and "Counterparts", and another with Roger E. Sargeant, "The Cradled and the Called."
Later in life, Audrey returned to fine art with newfound passion. A true artist, she was inspired by the diverse people, images, and events she encountered, and produced many colorful portraits, nature scenes, and urban landscapes. She continued oil painting until well into the last year of her life.
Audrey R. Langer passed away in March 2008, leaving a daughter, Margot Lisa Miglins, Ph.D., and a son-in-law, Steven A. Fagerquist, a Special Visual Effects Compositor, as well as many loving friends.