

Writer, this East Coast hip hop artist is notable for his debut album, History in the Making, which rose to number twenty-five on the U.S. Compatible with Dragon or Monkey.īorn Juan Rusty Brito and known to his fans as J.R. Motivated by money, can be greedy, is ever curious, seeks knowledge and welcomes challenges. They have excellent taste, are a good friend and are generous and loyal to others considered part of its pack. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rat are quick-witted, clever, charming, sharp and funny. JR Writer was born in the Year of the Rat. They are fascinated with the world itself, extremely curious, with a constant feeling that there is not enough time to experience everything they want to see. They are sociable, communicative and ready for fun, with a tendency to suddenly get serious, thoughtful and restless. According to astrologers, Gemini is expressive and quick-witted, it represents two different personalities in one and you will never be sure which one you will face. Hamner died in Los Angeles, California, of bladder cancer on March 24, 2016, aged 92.JR Writer’s zodiac sign is Gemini. The Waltons derives from his paternal grandfather Walter Clifton Hamner and great-grandfather Walter Leland Hamner. Hamner used family names to title his projects: Spencer ( Spencer's Mountain) is the maiden name of his paternal grandmother Susan Henry Spencer Hamner.
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He also wrote or co-wrote eight episodes of the CBS animal series Gentle Ben (1967–1969) and four episodes of the sitcom Nanny and the Professor (1970). His first script acceptance for the series was his big writing break in Hollywood.

In the early 1960s, Hamner contributed eight episodes to the science fiction series The Twilight Zone. He reprised the theme in the 1964 " You Drive" episode of The Twilight Zone. In 1954, Hamner wrote "Hit and Run," an episode of the legal drama Justice.

He subsequently attended Northwestern University and then graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a degree in broadcast communications. He served in France after the invasion of Normandy. He was first trained to defuse landmines and then transferred to the Quartermaster Corps because he could type. Hamner was in his sophomore year on a scholarship at the University of Richmond when he was drafted into the Army during World War II. In April 2014, the church honored Earl with a special service in connection with the filming of Earl Hamner, Storyteller. ĭuring Earl's childhood years, the family (all except Earl Sr.) attended a small whiteboard church known as Schuyler Baptist Church. His walk on a snowy Christmas Eve in 1933 was the inspiration for Hamner's 1970 novel, The Homecoming, which became a Christmas special and the inspiration for The Waltons in 1971.

Taking a bus from Waynesboro to Charlottesville and another stop along the way, Hamner's father would walk six miles to the family home to complete his weekly journey. lived at a boarding house in Waynesboro during the week and traveled back to Schuyler and his family on the weekend. Due to the distance between home and work, Earl Sr. could only find work as a machinist at the DuPont factory in Waynesboro, Virginia, about 30 miles away. Hamner's father worked in the mines from the time his eldest son was born until the company's closing. Schuyler was a company town where the economy was based in soapstone mining by New Alberene Stone, and the town was hit hard by the Great Depression when the company and its mines closed. Until the 1900s, the Hamners were tobacco farmers near James River, Virginia, when they moved to Schuyler, located on the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains. His father's family came to Virginia from Wales. The family of Hamner's mother, the Gianninis, were immigrants who came to the United States from Lucca, Italy, in the 1700s. The girls, from youngest to oldest, were Nancy Alice, Audrey Jane, and Marion Lee. The other boys, from youngest to next-oldest, were James Edmund, Willard Harold, Paul Louis, and Clifton Anderson. The oldest of eight children, Hamner had four brothers and three sisters. Hamner was born July 10, 1923, in Schuyler, Virginia to Doris Marion (née Giannini) and Earl Henry Hamner Sr. As a novelist, he is best known for Spencer's Mountain, which was inspired by his own childhood and formed the basis for both the film of the same name and the television series The Waltons, for which he provided voice-over narration. (J– March 24, 2016) was an American television writer and producer (sometimes credited as Earl Hamner), best known for his work in the 1970s and 1980s as the creator of two long-running series, The Waltons and Falcon Crest.
