This book contains four screenplays and one stage play. The reader will enter into tragedy, comedy, a variety of world settings, compassion, romance, and pages and pages of imagination.

This collection of art spans the period from 1950 to 2020. It consists of oil and water paintings; pencil, charcoal, and ink drawings and lithographs; photographs; and sculptures. There are omissions. One was the loss of some oil paintings when I moved from Chicago to Maine in 1965. They were inadvertently left in a basement storage room of our apartment building. The other time was when two or so multilithographs were given to an art retail store in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on consignment but were never checked on again.

The 525 notable works of 19th and 20th century American fiction in this reference book have many stage, movie, television, and video adaptations. Each literary work is described and then every adaptation is examined with a discussion of how accurate the version is and how well it succeeds in conveying the spirit of the original in a different medium. In addition to famous novels and short stories by authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Willa Cather, many bestsellers, mysteries, children's books, young adult books, horror novels, science fiction, detective stories, and sensational potboilers from the past two centuries are examined.