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Showing posts with the label The Modesto Bee Lisa Millegan Renner Author and screenwriter brings his family and knowhow to Mother Lode Friday December 23 2011 Copyright 2011 The Modesto Bee

The Modesto Bee - A Wonderful Article by Lisa Millegan Renner

Here is Lisa Millegan Renner's wonderful article about me from the Arts pages of the Scene Section of  The Modesto Bee , Friday, December 23rd, 2011:     Author and screenwriter brings his family and knowhow to Mother Lode     By Lisa Millegan Renner lrenner@modbee.com The War Zone published screenplay. In 1989, writer Alexander Stuart was in all the British media for first receiving and then losing the prestigious Whitbread Award for his controversial novel "The War Zone." The book offended some people because of its unflinching look at incest between a father and his teenage daughter. The author says he was stripped of the prize when one of award judges — who hated the book — politicked behind the scenes. But "The War Zone" became Stuart's most successful work; it was published in eight languages and was turned into a film in 1999, directed by Tim Roth. Photograph: Hudson Chow-Stuart. "It was better than winning, in a way