Room at the Top (1959 film) office in 1959 after "Carry On Nurse" and "Inn of the Sixth Happiness". Wins Nominations Wins Nominations Win Nomination Win Nomination Room at the Top (1959 film) Room at the Top is a 1959 British film based on the novel of the same name by John Braine. The novel was adapted by Neil Paterson with uncredited work by Mordecai Richler. It was directed by Jack Clayton and produced by John and James Woolf. The film stars Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit, Donald Houston and Hermione Baddeley. "Room at the Top" was widely lauded, and was nominated for
Robert Cohen (novelist) Robert Cohen (novelist) Robert Cohen (born 1957) is an American novelist and short fiction writer. Cohen grew up in Westfield, New Jersey. He attended UC Berkeley and subsequently received his MFA from Columbia University. Cohen's themes center around issues of contemporary identity and transcendence. His writing has been praised as "wild and ingenious" by "The New York Times", "formidable" by "The Atlantic Monthly", and "ruefully funny" by the "San Francisco Chronicle." DG Meyers of "A Commonplace Blog" writes, "Sentence by sentence, Robert Cohen is perhaps the best prose stylist of any American novelist now writing." His first novel, "The Organ