Recommended Reading
for Longstreet Fans
Fiction
See our
Baynard Kendrick page
for information about the
Duncan Maclain
series of novels about a blind detective. Longstreet was based on Duncan Maclain.
Baynard Kendrick also wrote a wonderful novel called
Lights Out
that was renamed and made into a film --
Bright Victory
(1951) starring Arthur Kennedy and Peggy Dow.
The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh's list of
Disabilities in Fiction
provides a starting point for readers interested in blindness and other disabilities as portrayed in fiction.
Nonfiction
The Cinema of Isolation
: A History of Physical Disability in the Movies
by Martin F. Norden is a detailed study of the film industry's portrayal of characters with disabilities.
The Screenwriter Looks at the Screenwriter
is a 1972 book by William Froug with interviews with a number of famous screenwriters, including Stirling Silliphant. It provides an interesting window into the mind of the series creator. You may find a copy at your library, a used book store, at
Alibris
, or on
eBay
.
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