Novelist, screenwriter and biographer whose subjects included his father, GrouchoArthur Marx, who has died aged 89, grew up in the shadow of his father, Groucho, and was steeped in the controlled chaos of the Marx Brothers. Torn between trying to distance himself from a demanding father, yet also prove worthy of his genius, he enjoyed a long career as a writer of screen and stage comedies, novels and biographies. Not…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:43AM on April 17, 2011