Laird Koenig (born September 24, 1927) is an American
author
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. His best-known work is ''
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
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,'' a
novel published in 1974.
The novel was adapted into the 1976
film of the same name starring
Jodie Foster
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. He also wrote a
play
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based on his novel.
Novels
* ''The Children are Watching'' (w. Peter L. Dixon) (Ballantine, 1970) (filmed as ''
Attention, The Kids Are Watching'', 1978)
* ''
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
''The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane'' is a 1976 cross-genre film directed by Nicolas Gessner and starring Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Alexis Smith, Mort Shuman, and Scott Jacoby. It was a co-production of Canada and France and written by L ...
'' (Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1974) (filmed 1976)
* ''Islands'' (Dell, 1980)
* ''The Neighbor'' (Avon, 1978) (filmed as ''
Killing 'em Softly
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'', 1982)
* ''The Disciple'' (Bantam, 1983)
* ''Rockabye'' (St. Martin's Press, 1981) (filmed 1986)
* ''The Sea Wife'' (Warner Books, 1986)
* ''Rising Sun'' (1986)
* ''Morning Sun : The Story of Madam Butterfly's Boy'' (Prospecta Press, 2012)
Plays
* ''The Dozens''. Dramatist's Play Service, New York 1969
* ''The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane''. Dramatist's Play Service, New York 1997,
Screenplays
* ''
The Cat'' (w. William Redlin), 1966
* ''
Flipper'' (TV series), episodes, 1966–1967
* ''
The High Chaparral
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'' (TV series), episodes, 1970
* ''
Red Sun
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''
. Dene Bart Petitclerc, William Roberts, Lawrence Roman 1971
* ''
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
''The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane'' is a 1976 cross-genre film directed by Nicolas Gessner and starring Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Alexis Smith, Mort Shuman, and Scott Jacoby. It was a co-production of Canada and France and written by L ...
'', 1976 (from own novel)
* ''
Bloodline
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'', 1979 (from
Sidney Sheldon
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novel)
* ''
Inchon
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'' (w.
Robin Moore
Robert Lowell Moore Jr. (October 31, 1925 – February 21, 2008) was an American writer who wrote '' The Green Berets'', '' The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy'', and with Xaviera Hollander and ...
), 1981 (from story by Moore and Paul Savage)
* ''Rockabye'', 1986 (from own novel)
* ''Stillwatch'' (w. David E. Peckinpah), 1987 (from
Mary Higgins Clark
Mary Higgins Clark (born Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins (December 24, 1927 – January 31, 2020) was an American author of suspense novels. Each of her 51 books was a bestseller in the United States and various European countries, and all of he ...
novel)
* ''The Fulfilment of Mary Gray'', 1989 (from
LaVyrle Spencer novel)
* ''
Tennessee Nights'', 1989 (from
Hans Werner Kettenbach
Hans Werner Kettenbach (20 April 1928 – 5 January 2018) was a German journalist and writer.
He also wrote crime fiction under the pseudonym Christian Ohlig.
Life
Born in Bendorf, across the river from Koblenz, Kettenbach grew up in Cologne. ...
novel)
* ''Lady Against the Odds''
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Awards and nominations
Adaptations
* (Unknown) for "Intrigues" (French TV series), 1985 (probably The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane)
References
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20th-century American novelists
Living people
1927 births
20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
American male novelists
American male screenwriters
American television writers
American male television writers
Writers from Seattle
American male dramatists and playwrights
20th-century American male writers
Novelists from Washington (state)
Screenwriters from Washington (state)