Born in 1950, he was nominated for a National Book Award for  Union Dues, a novel which concerns a West Virginia miner who  follows his runaway son to Boston at the height of the hippie  movement.
Born in 1950, he was nominated for a National Book Award for  Union Dues, a novel which concerns a West Virginia miner who  follows his runaway son to Boston at the height of the hippie  movement. The next year, 1978, he turned to write for the screen,  penning scripts for Piranha and The Howling, which financed his own  first film, The Return of the Seacacus Recently he did an  uncredited rewrite of Apollo 13, but his reputation lies with his  independent work. FTP, who is this writer-director of Passion Fish  and Lone Star?
Born in 1950, he was nominated for a National Book Award for  Union Dues, a novel which concerns a West Virginia miner who  follows his runaway son to Boston at the height of the hippie  movement.
John {Sayles}