Sentences with phrase «author of the novel on»

Although Suzanne Collins, the author of the novels on which the franchise is based, has a screenplay credit in the first of the four films (along with two male co-writers) all four films were directed by men.

One way ticket to Noirville: Viewers of HBO's «Mildred Pierce,» directed by Todd Haynes, may be interested to know about a bus tour of the Los Angeles venues that inspired James M. Cain, author of the novel on which the series and the 1945 film were based.

The script was written by Jesse Andrews, the author of the novel on which it was based.

Trey had the opportunity to sit down with Joyce Maynard, the author of the novel on which Reitman's film is based.

Not exact matches

George R.R. Martin, the author of the book series that spawned television's popular fantasy drama Game of Thrones on HBO, announced on his LiveJournal page this weekend that he failed to meet his Dec. 31, 2015 deadline to finish his novel The Winds of Winter.

In fact, Drucker, drew many of his insights from English literature, including two authors — Charles Dickens and George Eliot — on the Observer's best 100 novels of all time list.

The author of three novels and a memoir on his parents» romantic life, Lanchester is a layman writing for laymen.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

DiCaprio played Gatsby in the 2013 film version of American author F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, «The Great Gatsby» set on New York's Long Island.

Indeed, if you listen on occasion to O'Leary's turns on the radio, you may observe he speaks at times like a character out of a novel by the libertarian author Ayn Rand.

gave me a chance to rediscover Jane Austen, not least because she is my mother's favorite author: For not only does the Oakesian matriarch own all six of the Austen novels in the elegant Oxford edition, but Park Honan's marvelous biography, Jane Austen: Her Life, occupies a prominent place on her bookshelf as well ¯ which I gobbled up (naturally) even more avidly than I did the novels.

On the movie's IndieGoGo site, he says he is «a family practice physician, the father of ten home - educated children, a gun enthusiast and concealed carrier, and is the author of ten novels and two screenplays.»

Many authors, including some of our most popular, prolific and respected, still insist on writing novels of ideas.

International experts in other disciplines joined them including novelist Laura Esquivel, author of the hugely popular novel Like Water for Chocolate; Kirmen Uribe, one of the most widely read and translated Basque language authors; Cristina Franchini, an expert on International Law; Matthew Goldfarb, organic farmer, rural sociologist and expert in sustainable production; and María Fernanda di Giacobbe, winner of the 2016 Basque Culinary World Prize.

Based on French author Guy de Maupassant's contentious nineteenth - century novel, Bel Ami follows the licentious life of Parisian journalist Georges Duroy.

Linda Grant, author of the Booker - shortlisted novel The Clothes on Their Backs, said she was organising a protest against the rule while Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, said he had started a mission to get «every writer in the UK publicly opposed to this by tea time».

Just one full - length novel under his belt and Syracuse University professor George Saunders is on Stephen Colbert's list of top living authors.

«While the findings on reducing dental plaque extend a previous observation, the findings on decreasing inflammation are new and novel,» said Charles H. Hennekens, M.D., Dr.P.H., senior author and first Sir Richard Doll Professor, and senior academic advisor to the dean in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University.

«Knowing how cells respond to mechanical cues in the living embryo and how they physically sculpt tissues and organs in the 3D space will transform the way we think about developmental processes,» said Otger Campàs, a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UCSB and senior author on the paper that reports this novel technique in Nature Methods.

«Instead of building a metabolic framework from the ground up, we can reverse engineer existing regulons to enable an organism to thrive on a novel nutrient,» said Nikhil U. Nair, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at Tufts and corresponding author of this study.

«Increasing the duration of overnight fasting could be a novel strategy to reduce the risk of developing breast cancer,» said Catherine Marinac, UC San Diego doctoral candidate and first author on the paper.

«Our research explores a novel approach to treating mite allergy in which specially - encapsulated miniscule particles are administered with sequences of bacterial DNA that direct the immune system to suppress allergic immune responses,» says Peter Thorne, public health professor at the UI and a contributing author on the paper.

«One area we are focused on is the identification and characterization of novel viruses,» said the paper's senior author Gustavo Palacios, Ph.D., who directs USAMRIID's Center for Genome Sciences.

Gregory Mone, a science writer based in Boston, is the author of the young - adult novel Dangerous Waters: An Adventure on the Titanic.

Mark Poznansky, MD, PhD, director of the MGH - VIC and senior author of the Wound Repair and Regeneration report adds, «Having a novel therapeutic that is based on the immediate isolation of a patient's own cells, with minimal manipulation, will represent an attractive option for the wound care field; and a successful option that accelerates healing would greatly benefit patients, as diabetic ulcers typically need up to a year or more heal.

Although numerous studies have examined the potentially detrimental effects of restrictive feeding practices on children, the current study was novel in that it focused on the interplay of the parent's emotions with their controlling the child's food intake, said lead author Jaclyn A. Saltzman, a doctoral researcher in human development and family studies and scholar in the Illinois Transdisciplinary Obesity Prevention Program.

Coupled with a review of these results by experts on a molecular tumor board, the opportunity exists to identify novel therapies that would target specific abnormalities,» notes senior author of the work, Shridar Ganesan, MD, PhD, associate director for translational science at Rutgers Cancer Institute and associate professor of medicine and pharmacology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

«This species description of Ilomantis ginsburgae is novel since it relied heavily on the features of the female genitalia,» said lead author Sydney Brannoch, a Case Western Reserve University Ph.D. candidate working under the direction of Svenson at the Museum.

«There have been few studies on fruiting cherry trees with respect to novel irrigation strategies such as partial and deficit irrigation, which have been intensively researched worldwide for several other tree fruits,» said Gerry Neilsen, lead author of the study.

Sales has authored more than 350 papers, six patents and five book chapters on the synthesis and characterization of unusual and novel electronic and magnetic materials.

«Instead of building a metabolic framework from the ground up, we can reverse engineer existing regulons to enable an organism to thrive on a novel nutrient,» Nikhil Nair, PhD, an assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at Tufts and corresponding author of this study, said in a statement.

Author of books: Atmospheres of Mars and Venus (1961, nonfiction) Planets (1966, nonfiction, with Jonathan Norton Leonard) Intelligent Life in the Universe (1966, nonfiction, with Iosif S. Shklovskii) Planetary Exploration (1970, nonfiction) Planetary Atmospheres (1971, nonfiction, with Tobias C. Owen and Harlan J. Smith) U.F.O.'s: A Scientific Debate (1972, with Thornton Page) The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective (1973, nonfiction) Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (1973, nonfiction) The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (1977, nonfiction) Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record (1978, nonfiction) Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science (1979, nonfiction) Cosmos (1980, nonfiction) Comet (1985, nonfiction, with Ann Druyan) Contact (1985, novel) Nuclear Winter (1985, nonfiction) A Path where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race (1990, nonfiction, with Richard P. Turco) The Demon - Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1996, essays) Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are (1992, nonfiction, with Ann Druyan) Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994, essays) Billions and Billions (1996, essays) The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006, nonfiction, posthumous, with Ann Druyan)

In the paper, the authors write: ′ As the present study shows, the combination of light microscopy, scanning and transmission electron microscopy and three - dimensional confocal laser microscopy, successfully contributed novel information on the structure and morphology of ceratomyxid parasite stages in the bile, and provided unique insights into parasite composition, cell motility and cytokinesis in myxozoans, which had not previously been studied.

Our study opens the door for novel modalities of treatment based on small molecules that could cross biological barriers on their own,» said co-corresponding author Joseph F. Arboleda - Velasquez, MD, PhD, assistant scientist at Schepens Eye Research Institute.

She is co-editor of the NSCA's Guide to Exercise and Sport Nutrition and author of hundreds of magazine and trade publication articles on a variety of topics ranging from novel food ingredients to optimal sports performance recovery foods.

About Blog Instead of sharing advice about what writers should be doing, author Janice Hardy explains how to apply the industry's advice to your work, including tips on how to plan, write, edit and publish a novel.

The answer to that may seem obvious, but just in case it isn't let me say: writing a great He is the author of The First 50 Pages and Write Your Novel it's a good thing, and if your 10 thoughts on «4 Approaches for the First Chapter

The game is based on the novel of the same name by award - winning author, Christopher Brookmyre, and sees the player take on the role of protagonist Heather Quinn as she negotiates a variety of levels, all of which reference classic games and genres of years gone by.

Based on the second novel by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn, Dark Places stars Charlize Theron as Libby Day, a woman searching for the truth about the killing of her parents.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 is the eighth and final installment of the long - running film series adapted from the children's fantasy novels by British author J. K. Rowling, centering on the titular half - human boy wizard and his adventures at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.

With all deference to Martin Booth, author of the novel «A Very Private Gentleman» on which this is based, some books work better as movies than others and maybe his book wasn't meant to be turned into THIS movie.

An emotionally scarred fifty - something female, a high - profile but haunted British novelist, and a heroic dissident - cum - Soviet psychiatric hospital veteran who all formed an unbreakable bond while help prisoner in a World War II concentration camp reunite for the first time in forty years on the peaceful grounds of a renovated pastoral farm in Jefferson Lewis's adaptation of internationally acclaimed author Matt Cohen's popular novel.

«Loosely based on British author and film director Dennis Potter's 1986 novel «Ticket to Ride», Secret Friends follows the life of John (Alan Bates), a middle - aged wildflower illustrator in the throes of an identity crisis.

The screenplay, written by Riko Sakaguchi and Yonebayashi, is based on the 1971 children's novel The Little Broomstick by British author Mary Stewart, and the movie's story seems to exist in a unique place, with the characters appearing British but drawn in that specific style of Japanese animation, while the backdrops look as if they could be set in any place where there are fields and forests and farms and tiny villages down some dirt road.

It's an animated film, created by an Irish animation studio (Cartoon Saloon) and based on a novel by a Canadian author (Deborah Ellis), but despite these seeming obstacles to authenticity, this is a deeply felt and unsparingly realistic depiction of Afghanistan at a time of tyrannical rule by religious fundamentalists.

A cute film about the impact of the writing of racy novel on a small town and the town's reaction to the surprising author.

If the subsequent adaptation of author Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s acclaimed novel Breakfast of Champions failed to capture the essence of the written word, Nolte still managed to offer an impressive performance in the following year's The Golden Bowl.At this point in his career Nolte could certainly be counted on to turn in compelling performances regardless of the project, which made the return of his former demons more tragic than ever.

Although the film's title and a minimal amount of story come from author Michael Faber's 2000 novel, this is Glazer's most hyperstylized and unnerving film since Ben Kingsley got on the wrong side of Ray Winstone and Amanda Redman in the director's utterly self - assured feature debut, Sexy Beast.

Somewhat fittingly for a film that promises an adventure channeling a hefty chunk of nostalgia, the featurette allows author Ernie Cline — on whose novel the movie is based — to wax poetic about how Spielberg's work shaped his youth.

Actress turned author Celia Imrie on her writing debut, a comic novel set among English expats in the south of France