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Selected Movies Based On Works By Yaddo Writers

Paul Auster:  The Music of Chance, Smoke, Blue in the Face, and Mr. Vertigo

Edward Beach:  Run Silent, Run Deep

Paul Bowles:  The Sheltering Sky

Peter Cameron:  The Weekend and The City of Your Final Destination (forthcoming)

Truman Capote:  In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany’s

John Cheever:  The Swimmer

Malcolm Cowley:  Blue Juanita

Michael Cunningham:  The Hours and A Home at the End of the World

Meghan Daum:  The Quality of Life Report (forthcoming)

Jennifer Egan: The Invisible Circus

Jeffrey Eugenides:  The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex (forthcoming)

James T. Farrell:  Studs Lonigan

Kenneth Fearing:  No Way Out (The Big Clock)

Jules Feiffer:  Little Murders, Popeye, I Want to Go Home,  and Carnal Knowledge

Janet Frame: An Angel at My Table

Peter Hedges:  What’s Eating Gilbert Grape

Patricia Highsmith:  Strangers on a Train, Purple Noon, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Ripley’s Game

Oscar Hijuelos:  Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

A.M. Homes:  In a Country of Mothers and The Safety of Objects

Susanna Kaysen: Girl Interrupted

Daniel Keyes:  Charly (Flowers for Algernon)

Jonathan Lethem:  Motherless Brooklyn (forthcoming)

Craig Lucas:  Prelude to a Kiss

Bernard Malamud:  Angel Levine, First Seven Years, The Assistant, The Fixer, and The Natural

Carson McCullers:  Ballad of the Sad Café, A Member of the Wedding, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, and Reflections in a Golden Eye

Jay McInerney:  Bright Lights, Big City

Terry McMillan:  Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back

Susan Minot:  Stealing Beauty

Rick Moody:  The Ice Storm

Walter Mosley:  Devil In a Blue Dress

Penelope Mortimer:  The Pumpkin Eater

Flannery O’Connor:  Wise Blood

John Pielmeier:  Agnes of God

Katherine Anne Porter:  Ship of Fools

Richard Price:  Clockers

Mario Puzo:  The Godfather, Godfather: Part II, The Sicilian, Godfather: Part III, and Christopher Columbus: The Discovery

Philip Roth:  Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy’s Complaint, and The Human Stain

Mona Simpson:  Anywhere But Here

Robert Stone:  WUSA, Who’ll Stop the Rain, and A Hall of Mirrors

Laren Stover: The Bombshell Manual of Style (forthcoming)

Amy Tan: The Joy Luck Club

Dan Wakefield:  Starting Over

Alice Walker:  The Color Purple

Meg Wolitzer:  This Is My Life and Friends for Life

Doug Wright:  Quills