Fritz Kahn in 2010 at the at the Charité. Notes and drafts for Kahn's unfinished book "The Natural History of Palestine" are preserved in the Arthur and Fritz Kahn Collection at the Leo Baeck Institute, Center for Jewish History in New York. Fritz Kahn Fritz Kahn (29 September 1888 – 14 January 1968) was a German Jewish physician who published popular science books and is known for his illustrations, which pioneered infographics. Fritz Kahn was born in Halle an der Saale, Germany, the son of Arthur Kahn, a physician and author, and Hedwig Kahn, "née" Schmuhl. His father emigrated to the USA
James Kahn E.T.'s death. While on the set, Kahn gave a copy of his novel, "World Enough, and Time", to Spielberg – which resulted in Kahn getting the assignment to novelize the movie "Poltergeist", then in post-production. Kahn did several more novelizations after that – "Return of the Jedi", "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom", "The Goonies" and "Poltergeist II". During this period he also began to get television work, writing first for "St. Elsewhere", and later, "E/R" – a sitcom about an emergency department starring Elliott Gould and Mary MacDonald, in which Kahn created the character of a teen orderly