This Oscar-winning director's very literary output included "Cold Mountain" & "The English Patient"
... LONDON (AP) -- Oscar-winning 
director Anthony Minghella, who turned such literary works as ''The ... ''The 
English Patient,'' the 1996 World War II drama, won nine Academy ... His 2003 ''
Cold Mountain,'' based on Charles Frazier's novel of the U.S. Civil... [DOC] [TLE] Creative - The Front Page on Broadway [PAR] He was one of the youngest participants in Chicago's literary renaissance, ... 
Hecht was awarded the first-ever Academy Award for Best Original ... Hecht died 
in 1964, leaving behind a vast output of plays, novels, essays, ... theater producer
/director, celebrated wit, Academy Award winner, and short story and book writer.