Pulitzer Prize winning author - the armies of the night (1968 pulitzer prize), the naked and the dead, an american dream (1966), the executioner's song (1979)

Author - Myra Breckinridge, Burr, Lincoln, Washington DC, Julian, Empire. Playwright - The Best Man, Visit To A Small Planet. Screenwriter - Ben-Hur, Suddenly Last Summer, The Best Man, Is Paris Burning?, Caligula