Warren Adler

Warren Adler

The late Warren Adler (D: April 2019) was the acclaimed author of The War of the Roses, a masterpiece of macabre divorce adapted into the BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominated hit film starring Danny DeVito, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. Adler also optioned and sold film rights for a number of his works, including Random Hearts and Private Lies. Adler’s works have been translated into more than 25 languages, including his staged version of The War of the Roses, which opened to spectacular reviews worldwide. Adler, a regular Authorlink contributor, taught creative writing seminars at New York University and lectured on creative writing, film and television adaptation, and electronic publishing. At the time of his death at age 91, he had a number of film/TV adaptations in various stages of development with Grey Eagle Films including The Children of the Roses. His novels are available as audiobooks through Audible. His latest historical fiction release, Mother Nile, was received with spectacular reviews from critics and readers alike. Warren will be missed as our colleague.
The Creative Writing Course That Changed My Life

The Creative Writing Course That Changed My Life

  In 1949 when I was twenty-one years old I took a creative writing course at the New School in Manhattan given by Professor Don M. Wolfe. He had been my freshman English teacher at New York University, where I graduated in 1947, just two months shy of my twentieth...

How Do You Confront Bad Book Reviews?

How Do You Confront Bad Book Reviews?

Every serious novelist worth their salt believes in their soul that they have written a brilliant novel or multiple novels in which the reader will find compelling characters engaged in deeply imagined stories that profoundly illustrate the human condition. What every...

The Art of Remembering Your Entire Life

The Art of Remembering Your Entire Life

A Writer on How Memory Is His Greatest Asset I have been asked repeatedly how one can avoid the memory blocks that so often plague older people. As a novelist in my 87th year, I can attest that memory is the key to writing. Everything that happens in the life of a...

On Rejection and Renewal: A Note to Aspiring Novelists

On Rejection and Renewal: A Note to Aspiring Novelists

Reprinted with Permission, June 1, 2015   You’ve spent months, perhaps years, composing your novel. You’ve read and reread it hundreds of times. You’ve rethought it, rewritten it, and revised it, changed characters, dialogue and plot lines. Writing your novel is the...

Screenwriter Perla to Adapt Warren Adler’s TORTURE MAN — 2015

Screenwriter Perla to Adapt Warren Adler’s TORTURE MAN — 2015

Hernany Perla,  who recently sold the blacklist script BLINK to Atlast Independent along with Revelations to Lotus Entertainment, has signed on as screenwriter to adapt the forthcoming Fall 2015 hostage-suspense novel TORTURE MAN by bestselling author Warren Adler....

You’re Not Alone: 10 Struggles in Writing a Novel

You’re Not Alone: 10 Struggles in Writing a Novel

Guest Column by Warren Adler, Reprinted with Permission   May 1, 2015    Like every author on the planet, I've spent endless hours mulling over creating titles for my work. One strives, of course, to be both memorable and honestly descriptive of the content....

Pen or Computer: Which is Better for Creativity?

Pen or Computer: Which is Better for Creativity?

Guest Column by Warren Adler, Reprinted with Permission February 2015 For writers of the imagination, what we fear the most is a disruption, a blockage, a sudden dam that changes the course of the river of creativity. Back in the late sixties and early seventies when...