NORWALK, Conn., Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Author, screenwriter and NBC's "Today" show co-creator Gerald Green has died of pneumonia in Norwalk, Conn., at age 84.
Green was born Gerald Greenberg in New York and lived in New Canaan, Conn., and Boca Raton, Fla. He died Tuesday, his wife Marlene told The New York Times.
He wrote 20 novels, several works of nonfiction and an Emmy-award winning screenplay for the 1978 NBC miniseries "Holocaust." A book he wrote based on the screenplay won the Dag Hammarskjold International Prize the following year.
Two of his novels, "The Last Angry Man" and "His Majesty O'Keefe," were adapted for the screen in 1959 and 1954 respectively.
As a producer for NBC News, Green helped create "Today," which first broadcast 1952.
Green is survived by his wife, three children, three stepchildren and 20 grandchildren.
