Indeed, but it usually goes one way: namely novelists try their hand at Hollywood with varying degrees of success, going clear back to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and so on. Some novelists have smashing careers out in movieland: William Goldman (Butch Cassidy, All The President’s Men), Richard Price, Michael Chabon (one of the Spiderman II writers), Peter Lefcourt, to name but a few.

What’s unusual about the article on Mr. Strick, I think, is that he’s coming back the other way. He’s a successful screenwriter who decided to write a novel. You don’t see that every day. I’m sure there are others. Maybe someone will share.

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