John haase author biography wife

John Haase August 21 , - August 3 , was a dentist and author, whose most well known novel was adapted into the Richard Lester film " Petulia ", starring George C. Scott and Julie Christie.

He married Jean Rosenblatt in They had four children, but the marriage ended in divorce.

Life Haase was born in Frankfurt , the only son of a Lutheran father and Jewish mother. The growing threat of Nazi power forced the family to migrate to San Francisco in Haase practised in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, with many celebrities, including Conrad Hilton , for clients, for nearly forty years. He married Jean Rosenblatt in They had 4 children, but the marriage ended in divorce.

In , he wed Janis. He died in Montecito , of complications arising out of Emphysema. It is the story of an affair between a middle aged doctor, in the midst of a divorce, and a self described kook who wants to have an affair because she has been married for six months and has not had one yet. Haase was not happy with the adaptation for screen.

By , Haase was a Westwood dentist, married to the former Jean Rosenblatt, with whom he had four children; their marriage ended in divorce.

However the release of Lester's film was greeted with acclaim. The New York Times , commenting in July on a DVD collection of comedies from the s and 70s, called "Petulia" the most notable of a group of groundbreaking films from the 60's recently released on DVD. Haase was a prolific travel writer too, with several articles appearing in magazines and newspapers.

He was born at Sunbury, Victoria, on 13 December