Young Man with a Horn (novel)
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| Author | Dorothy Baker |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Biographic novel |
| Published | 1938 (Houghton Mifflin) |
Young Man with a Horn is a 1938 novel by Dorothy Baker that is loosely based on the real life of jazz cornet player Bix Beiderbecke. The novel was adapted for the movie Young Man with a Horn (1950) with Kirk Douglas, Doris Day, Lauren Bacall, Juano Hernández, and real-life Bix Beiderbecke friend and collaborator Hoagy Carmichael.