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.