Hecht’s A Thousand and One Afternoons column painted Chicago in a new, different light and was like a breath of fresh air to readers of bustling city life in the early 1900s. In 1921, Hecht pioneered the column A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago where he chronicled his experiences wandering the city and palling around with normal people. Upon his return to the States in 1919, he was back on the streets covering crime and immersing himself in the literary scene. He reported on the movement and aftermath of the war, which inspired his first novel, Erik Dorn.
While Hecht spent the first year sneaking into homes of crime victims and capturing photographs of their injuries of grief to appear in the next day’s paper, he proved himself to be an asset to the paper and he was brought on as a full-time reporter at seventeen.Īfter World War I, Hecht was sent to Berlin to serve as a foriegn correspondent for the Chicago Daily News. By a twist of fate, the young Hecht was introduced to the publisher of the Chicago Daily Journal who hired the teenager within hours of meeting him. At 16 years old, Ben Hecht left the University of Wisconsin for Chicago with fifty dollars in his pocket.
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