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Name
  
Joseph Hayes

Role
  
Author

Plays
  
The Desperate Hours


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Died
  
September 11, 2006, St. Augustine, Florida, United States

Movies
  
The Desperate Hours, Desperate Hours

Awards
  
Tony Award for Best Play

Books
  
When No One Is Watching, And Came the Spring, Quiet Summer: A Comedy i, The Gambit, The Long Dark Night

Similar People
  
Lee Garmes, Mark Rosenthal, Lawrence Konner, Michael Cimino, William Wyler

Joseph Hayes (August 2, 1918 – September 11, 2006) was an American playwright, novelist and screenwriter born in Indianapolis, Indiana. When he was thirteen, he entered a Benedictine monastery, staying for two years. After graduating from Arsenal Technical High School in Indianapolis in 1936, he graduated from Indiana University in 1941.

In 1949, he brought "Leaf and Bough" to Broadway. In 1954, he wrote the novel The Desperate Hours, his most successful work, which he brought to Broadway under the same name for which he won the 1955 Tony Award for Best Play. He turned his play into the screenplay for the film version, also in 1955. He won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Motion Picture Screenplay for that screenplay in 1956.

In 1962, he wrote his final Broadway play, Calculated Risk, and with his wife, Marrijane Hayes, co-wrote the screenplay for the Walt Disney movie Bon Voyage!.

Among his other novels are Ways of Darkness, No Escape, Winner's Circle, Island on Fire, Missing...and Presumed Dead, The Long Dark Night, Like Any Other Fugitive, The Deep End, The Third Day, Don't Go Away Mad, and The Hours After Midnight.

Hayes died of Alzheimer's disease in 2006. Survivors included three sons, ten grandchildren, and eleven great-grandchildren.

References

Joseph Hayes (author) Wikipedia