Who is the author of the source material for the 1992 American legal drama film directed by Rob Reiner in which Cuba Gooding Jr. appeared?
Cuba Gooding Jr. Cuba M. Gooding Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor. He gained his breakthrough role as Tre Styles in "Boyz n the Hood" (1991); he appeared in "A Few Good Men" (1992), "The Tuskegee Airmen" (1995), "Outbreak" (1995) and "Jerry Maguire" (1996), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He gained later attention for his roles as Carl Brashear in "Men of Honor", and in Michael Bay's WWII epic "Pearl Harbor" (2001) as Doris Miller. His other notable films include "As Good as It Gets" (1997), "American Gangster" (2007), "Lee Daniels' The Butler" (2013), and "Selma" (2014), playing civil rights attorney Fred Gray. In 2016, he portrayed O.J. Simpson in the FX drama series "", and co-starred in the sixth season of the FX anthology series "American Horror Story", subtitled "".
Ron Terpening Ron Terpening (born Ronnie Harold Terpening on May 3, 1946) is an American writer, professor of Italian, and editor. Though he started his writing career as an author of young-adult fiction, where the father/son conflict is a major theme, he is best known for his later novels of suspense, most of which are set, at least in part, in Italy, reflecting his academic background as a scholar of Italian culture. His thriller "League of Shadows", for example, deals with the Fascist Era in Italy and its aftermath in the contemporary world. A later international thriller, "Nine Days in October", came out of the author’s course research on the forces of order and disorder in contemporary Italy and follows a band of criminals and ex-terrorists as they attempt to carry out an assassination plot. All of his novels, including "Storm Track" and "Tropic of Fear", the latter set in Paraguay, are noted for their strong sense of place. In most of his novels, his protagonist is usually a common man placed in a situation where powerful forces are arrayed against him.