Who wrote the novel  a film directed by Stacie Passon and starring an actress who began her career in "Higher Ground" is based on?
Taissa Farmiga Taissa Farmiga ( ; born August 17, 1994) is an American actress. She began her career in film in the drama "Higher Ground" (2011), and subsequently made her television debut in the FX series "" (2011). Farmiga made her stage debut in the Off-Broadway revival of the drama play "Buried Child" (2016).
All Fall Down (film) All Fall Down is a 1962 American drama film, adapted from the novel "All Fall Down" (1960) by James Leo Herlihy, the author of "Midnight Cowboy" (1965). It was directed by John Frankenheimer and produced by John Houseman. The screenplay was adapted from the novel by playwright William Inge and the film starred Eva Marie Saint and Warren Beatty. Upon its release, the film was a minor box-office hit. Together with her performance in Frankenheimer's "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), Angela Lansbury (who played a destructively manipulative mother in both films) won the year's National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress. The film was entered in the 1962 Cannes Film Festival.