What is the nationality of the author of the novel that the film "Viva Max!" is based on?
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Viva Max! Viva Max! is a 1969 comedy film starring Peter Ustinov, Jonathan Winters and John Astin, directed by Jerry Paris. The film was written by Elliott Baker and based on a 1966 novel by Jim Lehrer.
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Jim Lehrer James Charles Lehrer ( ;—born May 19, 1934) is an American journalist and a novelist.
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Scott Frank A. Scott Frank (born March 10, 1960) is an American screenwriter, film director, and author.
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Matt Thorne Matthew "Matt" Thorne (born 1974) is an English novelist, writer, and journalist.
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Max Brown (novelist) Maxwell MacAlister "Max" Brown (21 March 1916 – 19 September 2003) was an Australian novelist and journalist.
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Mira W. Mira Widjaja (Wong), or Mira W. (b. 13 September 1951), is a highly popular Indonesian author. In spite of her background being an ethnic Chinese of Cantonese extraction from the Peranakan Chinese diaspora community, her work now reaches audiences from the entire country. Her father, Othniel, was among the pioneers of the Indonesian movie industry. She writes in an accessible genre, and deals with topics such as romance, crime and hospital life. She was a medical doctor before establishing herself as a writer.
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Andy McNab Steven Billy Mitchell, (born 28 December 1959), usually known by the pseudonym and pen-name of Andy McNab, is an English novelist and former Special Air Service sergeant.
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Karin Muller Karin Muller (born June 8, 1965) is a Swiss-born author, filmmaker, photographer, and adventurer.
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David Downie David D. Downie (born 1958 in San Francisco) is a multilingual Paris-based American nonfiction author, crime novelist and journalist who writes most often about culture, food and travel.
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Herman de Man Salomon Herman "Sal" Hamburger (11 July 1898 – 14 November 1946), known under his pseudonym Herman de Man, was a Dutch novelist.
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Max Braithwaite John Victor Maxwell Braithwaite (7 December 1911 – 19 March 1995) was a Canadian novelist and non-fiction author.
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Julia Wild Julie Vince (pen name, Julia Wild) is a British writer from Royton, England. An author of six romance novels from 1997 to 2002, she was honored in 2003 with the Love Story of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association for her novel, "Illusion ".
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Rita Mae Brown Rita Mae Brown (born 28 November 1944) is an American writer, activist, and feminist. She is best known for her first novel "Rubyfruit Jungle". Brown is also a mystery writer and screenwriter.
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Lothar-Günther Buchheim Lothar-Günther Buchheim (   ) (February 6, 1918 – February 22, 2007) was a German author and painter. He is best known for his novel "Das Boot" (1973), which became an international bestseller and was adapted in 1981 as an Oscar-nominated film.
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Josef Winckler Josef Winckler (7 July 1881, Bentlage, Rheine – 29 January 1966, Bensberg, Bergisch Gladbach) was a German writer, best known for his 1923 comic novel "The Mad Bomberg", which was turned into films in 1932 and 1957. One of his other popular novels was "Doctor Eisenbart" (1929), based on the life of Johann Andreas Eisenbarth.
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Pierre Lemaitre Pierre Lemaitre (born 19 April 1951 in Paris) is a Prix Goncourt-winning French author and a screenwriter, internationally renowned for the crime novels featuring the fictional character Commandant Camille Verhœven.
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Stefan Zweig Stefan Zweig ( ; ] ; November 28, 1881 – February 22, 1942) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most popular writers in the world.
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Guy Boothby Guy Newell Boothby (13 October 1867 – 26 February 1905) was a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. He lived mainly in England. He is best known for such works as the Dr Nikola series, about an occultist criminal mastermind who is a Victorian forerunner to Fu Manchu, and "Pharos, the Egyptian", a tale of Gothic Egypt, mummies' curses and supernatural revenge. Rudyard Kipling was his friend and mentor, and his books were remembered with affection by George Orwell.
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Marc Levy Marc Levy (born 16 October 1961) is a French novelist.
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Flyaway (novel) Flyaway is a first person narrative thriller novel by English author Desmond Bagley, first published in 1978. It introduces Max Stafford as protagonist, who would later appear in Bagley's novel, "Windfall".
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Joanne Harris Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 3 July 1964) is an English author, known for her award-winning novel "Chocolat". It was later turned into the 2000 film "Chocolat".
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Martin Edwards (author) Martin Edwards (born 7 July 1955), whose full name is Kenneth Martin Edwards, is a British crime novelist, critic and solicitor.