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Maxwell is best known for his portrayal of William Faulkner in Oh, Mr. Faulkner, Do You Write?, a one-man theatrical piece co-written with Tom Dupree. Maxwell has performed this play steadily since its world premiere at Jackson's New Stage Theatre in 1981. It appeared as a film, directed by Jimbo Barnett, in 2006, and was released on DVD in 2008.
Patricia Highsmith (born Mary Patricia Plangman; January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) [1] was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley.
John Alfred Williams (December 5, 1925 – July 3, 2015) was an African American author, journalist, and academic. His novel The Man Who Cried I Am was a bestseller in 1967. [ 1 ] Also a poet, he won an American Book Award for his 1998 collection Safari West .
Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930) is a novel by the British author W. Somerset Maugham.Maugham exposes the misguided social snobbery levelled at the character Rosie Driffield, whose frankness, honesty, and sexual freedom make her a target of conservative opprobrium.
Light Sleeper is a 1992 American crime drama film written and directed by Paul Schrader and starring Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, and Dana Delany.Set in New York City during a sanitation strike, the gritty neo-noir film stars Dafoe as a high-class drug dealer battling a midlife crisis before becoming embroiled in tragic events following the chance encounter with a former girlfriend. [2]
Now, he’s found happiness. In this new documentary from R.J. Cutler and John’s husband, David Furnish, John looks back on his meteoric rise and opens up about his mortality. [The Hollywood ...
John Maxwell Brownjohn (11 April 1929 [1] [2] – 6 January 2020) ... Thomas Glavinic: Night Work; Martin Gregor-Dellin: Richard Wagner: His Life, His Work, His Century;
So, at night and whenever he has the chance, John begins teaching Sarny the letters of the English alphabet. After teaching her 8 letters (A to H), Walter catches Sarny writing in the dirt and punishes John for teaching her by cutting off the toes from each of his feet. But then after three days of recuperating, John runs and makes it to freedom.