Curated category
American novels adapted into films
- Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain composed the story in pen on notepaper between 1876 and 1883. He originally titled the manuscript Huckleberry Finn's Autobiography before settling…
- The Sun Also RisesIn 1925, Paris hosted as many as 200,000 English-speaking expatriates seeking refuge from the United States. The Paris Tribune reported that year on an…
- Mazes and Monsters (novel)In the late 1970s, a Michigan State University student named James Dallas Egbert III vanished into the campus steam tunnels.
- The Great GatsbyIn 1922, a young F. Scott Fitzgerald stood on the lawn of his Long Island estate and watched the lights flicker across the water toward East Egg.
- Moby-DickHerman Melville signed on as a green hand for the maiden voyage of the whaler Acushnet on the 30th of December 1840. This five-year journey provided the raw…
- Carrie (novel)Stephen King wrote the opening pages of Carrie in a trailer in Hermon, Maine, during 1973. He had just finished teaching English at Hampden Academy and was…
- Gone with the Wind (novel)Margaret Mitchell began writing Gone with the Wind in 1926 while recovering from a slow-healing injury sustained in an auto crash.
- The Red Badge of CourageStephen Crane stood in the quiet of a New Jersey studio in June 1893, staring at blank legal paper. He had never seen a battlefield.
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?The year is 1992. Earth's atmosphere lies in ruins after a global nuclear war. Most animal species have vanished from the planet.
- The Mist (novella)Stephen King wrote The Mist during the summer of 1976. He drew inspiration from a real thunderstorm that struck his home area in Maine.