Millard Kaufman Millard Kaufman Millard Kaufman(March 12, 1917 – March 14, 2009) was an American screenwriter and novelist. His works include the Academy Award-nominated "Bad Day at Black Rock" (1955). He was also one of the creators of Mr. Magoo. Kaufman was born and raised in Baltimore and graduated from the Baltimore City College (high school). He eventually graduated from Johns Hopkins University after work as a merchant seaman. After that, he moved to New York City, taking a job as copyboy for the "New York Daily News". At some point, he married Lorraine Paisley. He enlisted in the Marines in 1942,
Shirley Kaufman poet and playwright Debra Kaufman, made a short film about her poem "Ezekiel's Wheels". Her work has appeared in "Ploughshares", "Harper's", "American Poetry Review", and "The New Yorker". She died from Alzheimer's disease at the age of 93. Shirley Kaufman Shirley Kaufman Daleski (June 5, 1923 in Seattle - September 25, 2016 in San Francisco) was an American-Israeli poet and translator. Her parents immigrated from Poland. She grew up in Seattle and graduated from James A. Garfield High School in 1940. She graduated from University of California, Los Angeles in 1944, and in 1946 she married Dr. Bernard Kaufman, Jr.