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Learned something new today! I have neither read nor viewed the works of William Monahan and must admit that I'm mildly curious.
This list of works by William Monahan classifies all known works by William Monahan (born November 3, 1960), an American screenwriter, literary novelist, and former journalist. He was awarded a 1997 Pushcart Prize for his short fiction, and in 2007 won a WGA Award and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Departed, his second produced script.
Monahan attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in the 1980s to study English literature, and later wrote fiction in several of the zines and literary magazines that had recently launched in the Pioneer Valley; he also played guitar in a local band called the Slags.[1] His earliest known published piece, a short story titled "At the Village Hall", appeared in 1991 in the Northampton zine Perkins Press.[2] Two years later, his first novel, Light House, was published serially in the Amherst literary magazine Old Crow Review. In 1994 Monahan moved to New York City and began writing for the alternative weekly newspaper New York Press. Over the following years he wrote and edited for various magazines, including the last four issues of Spy.
In 1998, Monahan sold Light House to Penguin Putnam and was hired by Warner Bros. to adapt it into a film. He committed to a screenwriting career while waiting for his novel to be published as Light House: A Trifle in 2000; it garnered critical acclaim but had lackluster sales. However, in subsequent years he worked heavily as a screenwriter; his first produced screenplay would be Kingdom of Heaven, released to theaters in 2005. He currently resides on the North Shore of Massachusetts with his wife and two children.
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