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Authors With the Most Film Adaptations - Page 3

It seems as though every other day there's an announcement of a new forthcoming film adaptation of a beloved (or just new) novel—after all, where else would great films come from? It's a huge deal to have your novel adapted for the big screen, but some authors probably don't even notice it anymore. There are plenty of writers whose works have been made into many, many films—William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and Arthur Conan Doyle being the high rollers that immediately spring to mind. But with contemporary—read, living—authors, the field is a little slimmer. So I wondered—which living authors have had the most films adapted from their work (so far)?
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The Andromeda Strain (Michael Crichton)
The Andromeda Strain
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Michael Crichton
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
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Dealing
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Dealing: Or the Berkeley-To-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1972)
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-To-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1972)
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A Case of Need (Michael Crichton)
A Case of Need
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Michael Crichton
The Carey Treatment (1972)
The Carey Treatment (1972)
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The Terminal Man (Michael Crichton)
The Terminal Man
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Michael Crichton
The Terminal Man (1974)
The Terminal Man (1974)
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The First Great Train Robbery
The First Great Train Robbery
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The First Great Train Robbery (1979)
The First Great Train Robbery (1979)
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Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton)
Jurassic Park
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Michael Crichton
Jurassic Park (1993)
Jurassic Park (1993)
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Rising Sun (Michael Crichton)
Rising Sun
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Michael Crichton
Rising Sun (1993)
Rising Sun (1993)
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Disclosure
Disclosure
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Disclosure (1994)
Disclosure (1994)
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Congo (Michael Crichton)
Congo
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Michael Crichton
Congo (1995)
Congo (1995)
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The Lost World (Michael Crichton)
The Lost World
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Michael Crichton
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
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Sphere (Michael Crichton)
Sphere
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Michael Crichton
Sphere (1998)
Sphere (1998)
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Eaters of the Dead
Eaters of the Dead
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The 13th Warrior (1999)
The 13th Warrior (1999)
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Timeline (Michael Crichton)
Timeline
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Michael Crichton
Timeline (2003)
Timeline (2003)
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Strangers on a Train (Patricia Highsmith)
Strangers on a Train
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Strangers on a Train (1951)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
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The Talented Mr. Ripley (Patricia Highsmith)
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Patricia Highsmith
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
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The Cry of the Owl
The Cry of the Owl
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The Cry of the Owl (2009)
The Cry of the Owl (2009)
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The Two Faces of January (Patricia Highsmith)
The Two Faces of January
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Patricia Highsmith
The Two Faces of January (2014)
The Two Faces of January (2014)
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The Price of Salt (Patricia Highsmith)
The Price of Salt
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Patricia Highsmith
Carol (2015)
Carol (2015)
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The Blunderer (Patricia Highsmith)
The Blunderer
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Patricia Highsmith
A Kind of Murder (2016)
A Kind of Murder (2016)
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Jamaica Inn (Daphne Du Maurier)
Jamaica Inn
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Daphne Du Maurier
Jamaica Inn (1939)
Jamaica Inn (1939)
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