A Gift From Frank McCourt
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.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley recalls meeting Frank McCourt when he was a teenager, and seeing him for the last time. Plus, read McCourt's article about Doubt, Shanley's play.
Remembering Frank McCourt
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The death of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angela's Ashes author has elicited an outpouring of emotions. Read tributes from John Patrick Shanley, Lee Siegel, and a former McCourt student.
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 by Greene's tortured vision of modern life as idealism caught...
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.
An Oscar Director's Nightstand
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.
What the Oscar nominated John Patrick Shanley is reading.
Milk is the only Best Picture nominee not based on a novel, play, or comic book this year. From The Reader to Slumdog, literary adaptations dominate this year's Oscars, but not all escape the perils of the move from page to screen. By The Daily Beast
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