By 1919, they had come from all parts of the world to the new Mecca. Huge fortunes were made. Sex was easy. Young teenage girls had left the farm to become rich. All they had to do was fake love scenes. Aided and abetted by a corrupt police force and the Mafia, a fifty-year-old, former glove manufacturer turned studio head, ruled like a king. Into his realm ventured the great James Masters, who was desperate to keep his criminal past a secret. Within the confines of this fantasy world, he met a seventeen-year-old beauty whose mother was prepared to do anything to make her daughter a Hollywood star. What did all these dreamers have in common? 1919 Hollywood welcomed them all and even devoured a few.
Ricard Bonte
Novels, Plays and Screenplays (2025)
BIOGRAPHY OF WRITER, RICHARD BONTE
www.richardbonte.com
Richard Bonte is a Bradenton, Florida resident and a native-born New
Yorker. He has lived much of his life in Canada, California and Western Europe, and speaks several languages fluently.
He has worn many hats including playwright (lifelong DGA member), actor, teacher, writer, linguist, and phonetician. He has advanced degrees from Berkeley, UCLA, and the Sorbonne.
A playwright and screenwriter, Richard has written several absurdist plays, such as “Venom” and “A Meets B,” as well as screenplays, such as “The Queen’s Mate” and “Against Nature.”
Richard has written eclectically about many subjects including twenty novels such as “Terry’s Upside” and “The Baja Redemption.” His irreverent novel, “Curmudgeonly Yours” (2017)), was awarded the FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association) 2018 Silver prize for Humor.
Richard has also co-written many novels, one a thriller about COVID-19 called, “The Wuhan Tentacles (2020), and another entitled, “Grand Cayman, Exposed (2021).”
The tandem has also finished a dozen novels in two series about the 1920s: The James Masters’ Series about crime, redemption, and the backstory of the Great Gatsby’s life; and a dramatic story about an extended Austrian-English-American family entitled, “The Family.”
Currently, Richard is working on a political satire entitled “PinkLand.” All of Richard’s work can be found on Amazon’s Kindle or www.richardbonte.com.
