Donald E Steward wrote or co-wrote the screenplay for a 1992 American spy thriller that was directed by Phillip Noyce and was based on a novel of the same name that was written by who?
Donald E. Stewart Donald E. Stewart (24 January 193028 April 1999) was an American-born screenwriter, best known for his screenplay for "Missing", which won the Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay, the Writers Guild of America Award, the London Film Critics' Circle award, a Christopher Award, (www.christophers.org) and the BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay, all shared with the film's director, Costa-Gavras. The screenplay for "Missing" is used in film schools for instruction in structure and development. He also wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for the Tom Clancy-trilogy of Jack Ryan films "The Hunt for Red October", "Patriot Games" and "Clear and Present Danger".
The Bridges of Madison County The Bridges of Madison County is a 1992 best-selling novel by Robert James Waller that tells the story of a married but lonely Italian-American woman (war bride) living on a 1960s Madison County, Iowa farm. While her husband and children are away at the State Fair, she engages in an affair with a "National Geographic" photographer from Bellingham, Washington, who is visiting Madison County to create a photographic essay on the covered bridges in the area. The novel is presented as a novelization of a true story, but it is in fact entirely fictional. However, the author stated in an interview that there were strong similarities between the main character and himself.