Scope and Content of the Collection From the Collection: Materials collected by Robert A. Signer during research for a biography on Ben Hecht. Signer began writing drafts in the early 1980s, but never completed the project. Includes many reproductions of book chapters, newspaper and magazine articles, and legal documents. Many copies come from the Newberry's own Ben Hecht Papers. Also contains manuscript drafts of Signer’s biography, correspondence, transcripts and audiocassette recordings of interviews by Signer. The subject files cover Hecht’s...