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John Patrick Shanley is an award-winning American playwright. He won the Academy Award for his script for the 1987 film, Moonstruck. In 1990, Shanley directed his script of Joe Versus the Volcano and in 2005, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Doubt. He directed the movie version last year.

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A Gift From Frank McCourt

A Gift From Frank McCourt

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley recalls meeting Frank McCourt when he was a teenager, and see...

Posted 11:19 PM | Jul 20, 2009
An Oscar Directors Nightstand

An Oscar Director's Nightstand

What the Oscar nominated John Patrick Shanley is reading. The Perfumed Gardenby Shaykh Nefzawi The erotic manual T...

Posted 7:07 AM | Feb 21, 2009
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This Gun for Hire and Brighton Rock by Graham Greene. Greene's "entertainments," as he called these short books, offer mesmerizing narratives of suspense. They are complicated b...

10:40 am, Feb 28, 2009