 He also authored a teleplay, "Make Way for Teddy", and two novels, "Family on the Hill" (1945) and "Room for Mr. Roosevelt" (1951).Flack's signature achievement, "The Strangers That Came to Town" was an early literary examination of bigotry and prejudice in small-town America that pre-dated the similarly-themed To Kill a Mockingbird.Narrated by a young boy named Andy, the story follows the Duvitch family, Croatian immigrants whose physical appearance the narrator immediately marks as both "foreign" and poor.