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Stojan Steve Tesich ((セルビア語:Стојан Стив Тешић), ''Stojan Stiv Tešić''; September 29, 1942 – July 1, 1996) was a Serbian-American screenwriter,〔(The New York Times )〕 playwright and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1979 for the movie ''Breaking Away''. ==Career== Steve Tesich was born as Stojan Tešić ((セルビア語:Стојан Тешић, pronounced Tesh-ich)) in Užice, in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia (now Serbia) on September 29, 1942, but immigrated to the USA in 1957 with his family when he was 14 years old. His father died in 1962. His family settled in East Chicago, Indiana. Tesich graduated from Indiana University in 1965 with a BA in Russian, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. He went on to do graduate work at Columbia University, receiving an MA in Russian Literature in 1967. He also wrote his first plays while at Columbia University. After graduation, he worked as a Department of Welfare caseworker in Brooklyn, New York in 1968. He had been an alternate rider in 1962 for the Phi Kappa Psi team in the Little 500 bicycle race. His teammate was Dave Blase, who rode 139 of 200 laps and was the victory rider crossing the finish line for his team. They subsequently developed a friendship. Dave Blase was the model for the main character in Tesich's award-winning screenplay ''Breaking Away'' in 1979. At a special screening of the 1985 cycling movie ''American Flyers'' starring Kevin Costner and Rae Dawn Chong in 1985, Tesich told the audience: “Many of you are better cyclists than I ever was, but I love this sport as much as anyone." His play ''Division Street'' opened on Broadway in 1980 starring John Lithgow and Keene Curtis and was revived in 1987. The 1980 production of ''Division Street'' played at the Ambassador Theatre in New York City. The production opened on October 8, 1980 and closed after 21 performances. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Steve Tesich」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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