Editing George Kirgo (section)

{{short description|American novelist (1926–2004)}}

{{Infobox person
| name         = George Kirgo
| image        = George_Kirgo_book_cover_(cropped)_with_picture.jpg
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| caption      = George Kirgo, as photographed by [[Elliott Erwitt]], on the cover of his second book, published at the height of the author's early sixties celebrity.
| birth_name   = George Blumenthal <ref name=EV>Vasquez, Enid. "Hartford Public's Class of' 43 Returns for Updated Fun". ''[[The Hartford Courant]]''. October 30, 1983.  "Blumenthal, who formally took his nickname and is George Kirgo, a movie and television scriptwriter in Los Angeles, updated the class 'History, Prophecy, Will' – a high school tradition in those days [...] "I think everybody expected Kirgo to be doing the kind of things he's doing,' said [John C.] Lennoff" [then vice president of financial affairs at Connecticut Public Broadcasting] [...] His class yearbook called him the 'Orson Welles of HPHS.'" Retrieved 2014-02-09. <!-- via ProQuest --><!-- Needs ProQuest URL --></ref>
| birth_date   = {{Birth date|1926|3|26}}
| birth_place  = [[Hartford, Connecticut]], U.S.
| death_date   = {{Death date and age|2004|8|22|1926|3|26}}
| death_place  = [[Santa Monica, California]], U.S.<ref name=LATobit>Oliver, Myrna. [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-aug-26-me-kirgo26-story.html "George Kirgo, 78; Led '88 Writers Strike Against Studios"]. ''[[The Los Angeles Times]]''. Retrieved 2014-02-04.</ref>
| occupation   = Screenwriter, author
| years_active = 1954–2001
}}

'''George Kirgo''' (born '''George Blumenthal'''; March 26, 1926 – August 22, 2004) was an American [[screenwriter]], author and [[humorist]].