Thomas Berger

Thomas Louis Berger (July 20, 1924 – July 13, 2014) was an American novelist best known for his picaresque novel Little Big Man and its subsequent film adaptation by Arthur Penn[1][2]. His darkly comic fiction explored and satirized the American experience across diverse genres including crime, science fiction, utopian novels, and re-workings of classical mythology and Arthurian legend[1][2].