Category:Films based on works by American writers

• Films based on works by American comic book writers‎ (20 C)
• Films based on American novels‎ (40 C, 3,536 P)
• Films based on American short stories‎ (9 C, 177 P)

+

• Animated films based on works by American writers‎ (3 C, 3 P)

A

• Films based on works by Mitch Albom‎ (4 P)
• Films based on works by Louisa May Alcott‎ (1 C, 5 P)
• Films based on works by Henry Wilson Allen‎ (9 P)
• Films based on works by Charlotte Armstrong‎ (6 P)
• Films based on works by Isaac Asimov‎ (6 P)
• Films based on works by Gertrude Atherton‎ (7 P)

B

• Films based on works by John L. Balderston‎ (8 P)
• Films based on works by Faith Baldwin‎ (11 P)
• Films based on works by James Baldwin‎ (4 P)
• Films based on works by Nalbro Bartley‎ (2 P)
• Films based on works by L. Frank Baum‎ (1 C, 4 P)
• Films based on works by Rex Beach‎ (1 C, 31 P)
• Films based on works by Nathaniel Benchley‎ (4 P)
• Films based on works by Peter Benchley‎ (8 P)
• Films based on works by Thomas Berger (novelist)‎ (3 P)
• Films based on works by Earl Derr Biggers‎ (2 C, 4 P)
• Films based on works by Robert Bloch‎ (9 P)
• Films based on works by Ray Bradbury‎ (14 P)
• Films based on works by Louis Bromfield‎ (9 P)
• Films based on works by Dan Brown‎ (1 C, 4 P)
• Films based on works by Pearl S. Buck‎ (6 P)
• Films based on works by Vincent Bugliosi‎ (4 P)
• Films based on works by Charles Bukowski‎ (5 P)
• Films based on works by James Lee Burke‎ (4 P)
• Films based on works by Frances Hodgson Burnett‎ (3 C, 14 P)
• Films based on works by W. R. Burnett‎ (28 P)
• Films based on works by Edgar Rice Burroughs‎ (1 C, 9 P)
• Films based on works by Katharine Newlin Burt‎ (8 P)

C

• Films based on works by James M. Cain‎ (19 P)
• Films based on works by Truman Capote‎ (7 P)
• Films based on works by Forrest Carter‎ (3 P)
• Films based on works by Vera Caspary‎ (8 P)
• Films based on works by Willa Cather‎ (4 P)
• Films based on works by Robert W. Chambers‎ (23 P)
• Films based on works by Raymond Chandler‎ (1 C, 2 P)
• Films based on works by Tom Clancy‎ (1 C, 7 P)
• Films based on works by James Clavell‎ (2 P)
• Films based on works by Harlan Coben‎ (1 P)
• Films based on works by George M. Cohan‎ (8 P)
• Films based on works by Pat Conroy‎ (4 P)
• Films based on works by James Fenimore Cooper‎ (1 C, 3 P)
• Films based on works by Jane Cowl‎ (6 P)
• Films based on works by Mildred Cram‎ (6 P)
• Films based on works by Francis Marion Crawford‎ (9 P)
• Films based on works by Michael Crichton‎ (1 C, 18 P)
• Films based on works by James Oliver Curwood‎ (2 C, 50 P)
• Films based on works by Clive Cussler‎ (1 C, 1 P)

D

• Films based on works by Viña Delmar‎ (11 P)
• Films based on works by Philip K. Dick‎ (1 C, 19 P)
• Films based on works by Thomas Dixon Jr.‎ (4 P)
• Films based on works by Theodore Dreiser‎ (4 P)
• Films based on works by Martin Dugard (author)‎ (3 P)

E

• Films based on works by Dave Eggers‎ (2 P)
• Films based on works by Bret Easton Ellis‎ (6 P)
• Films based on works by James Ellroy‎ (4 P)

F

• Films based on works by John Fante‎ (4 P)
• Films based on works by William Faulkner‎ (15 P)
• Films based on works by Edna Ferber‎ (25 P)
• Films based on works by Jack Finney‎ (1 C, 6 P)
• Films based on works by F. Scott Fitzgerald‎ (1 C, 7 P)
• Films based on works by Morton Freedgood‎ (5 P)
• Films based on works by Bruce Jay Friedman‎ (3 P)

G

• Films based on works by Paul Gallico‎ (13 P)
• Films based on works by Brian Garfield‎ (1 C, 3 P)
• Films based on works by William Goldman‎ (7 P)
• Films based on works by Seth Grahame-Smith‎ (2 P)
• Films based on works by John Green (author)‎ (5 P)
• Films based on works by Zane Grey‎ (3 C, 89 P)
• Films based on works by John Grisham‎ (9 P)

H

• Films based on works by Dashiell Hammett‎ (2 C, 8 P)
• Films based on works by Bret Harte‎ (32 P)
• Films based on works by Nathaniel Hawthorne‎ (1 C, 5 P)
• Films based on works by Robert A. Heinlein‎ (1 C, 5 P)
• Films based on works by Lillian Hellman‎ (7 P)
• Films based on works by Ernest Hemingway‎ (28 P)
• Films based on works by O. Henry‎ (1 C, 22 P)
• Films based on works by Patricia Highsmith‎ (1 C, 18 P)
• Films based on works by Dorothy B. Hughes‎ (4 P)
• Films based on works by Rupert Hughes‎ (30 P)
• Films based on novels by Evan Hunter‎ (10 P)
• Films based on works by Fannie Hurst‎ (26 P)

I

• Films based on works by John Irving‎ (5 P)
• Films based on works by Washington Irving‎ (2 C, 2 P)

J

• Films based on works by Shirley Jackson‎ (4 P)
• Films based on works by Henry James‎ (1 C, 19 P)
• Films based on works by Jerry B. Jenkins‎ (5 P)
• Films based on works by Dorothy M. Johnson‎ (5 P)
• Films based on works by George Clayton Johnson‎ (6 P)

K

• Films based on works by MacKinlay Kantor‎ (9 P)
• Films based on works by Stephen King‎ (73 P)
• Films based on works by Dean Koontz‎ (16 P)

L

• Films based on works by Tim LaHaye‎ (4 P)
• Films based on works by Louis L'Amour‎ (15 P)
• Films based on works by Miklós László‎ (3 P)
• Films based on works by Dennis Lehane‎ (5 P)
• Films based on works by Fritz Leiber‎ (4 P)
• Films based on works by Elmore Leonard‎ (23 P)
• Films based on works by Ira Levin‎ (18 P)
• Films based on works by Michael Lewis‎ (3 P)
• Films based on works by Sinclair Lewis‎ (15 P)
• Films based on works by Jack London‎ (3 C, 50 P)
• Films based on works by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow‎ (15 P)
• Films based on works by H. P. Lovecraft‎ (2 C, 36 P)
• Films based on works by Robert Ludlum‎ (1 C, 4 P)

M

• Films based on works by John D. MacDonald‎ (8 P)
• Films based on works by Helen MacInnes‎ (4 P)
• Films based on works by Norman Mailer‎ (4 P)
• Films based on works by David Mamet‎ (9 P)
• Films based on works by Richard Matheson‎ (22 P)
• Films based on works by Cormac McCarthy‎ (5 P)
• Films based on works by Carson McCullers‎ (6 P)
• Films based on works by Johnston McCulley‎ (46 P)
• Films based on works by Herman Melville‎ (1 C, 9 P)
• Films based on works by Stephenie Meyer‎ (1 P)
• Films based on works by James A. Michener‎ (9 P)
• Films based on works by Alice Duer Miller‎ (23 P)
• Films based on works by Arthur Miller‎ (2 P)
• Films based on works by Henry Miller‎ (3 P)
• Films based on works by Jane Murfin‎ (6 P)

N

• Films based on works by Vladimir Nabokov‎ (7 P)
• Films based on works by Robert Nathan‎ (5 P)
• Films based on works by Frank Norris‎ (4 P)

O

• Films based on works by Mary O'Hara‎ (3 P)
• Films based on works by Clifford Odets‎ (4 P)
• Films based on works by Eugene O'Neill‎ (19 P)
• Films based on works by Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)‎ (4 P)

P

• Films based on works by Chuck Palahniuk‎ (3 P)
• Films based on works by Ursula Parrott‎ (6 P)
• Films based on works by James Patterson‎ (6 P)
• Films based on works by William Dudley Pelley‎ (10 P)
• Films based on works by Jodi Picoult‎ (3 P)
• Films based on works by Edgar Allan Poe‎ (6 C, 36 P)

R

• Films based on works by Ayn Rand‎ (7 P)
• Films based on works by Samson Raphaelson‎ (11 P)
• Films based on works by Alice Hegan Rice‎ (7 P)
• Films based on works by Anne Rice‎ (4 P)
• Films based on works by Craig Rice‎ (6 P)
• Films based on works by James Whitcomb Riley‎ (3 P)
• Films based on works by Mary Roberts Rinehart‎ (26 P)
• Films based on works by Nora Roberts‎ (5 P)
• Films based on works by Philip Roth‎ (9 P)
• Films based on works by Damon Runyon‎ (29 P)

S

• Films based on works by Lawrence Sanders‎ (2 P)
• Films based on works by Hubert Selby Jr.‎ (2 P)
• Films based on works by Dr. Seuss‎ (1 C, 5 P)
• Films based on works by Edward Sheldon‎ (12 P)
• Films based on works by Jean Shepherd‎ (1 C, 4 P)
• Films based on works by Neil Simon‎ (21 P)
• Films based on works by Upton Sinclair‎ (6 P)
• Films based on works by Isaac Bashevis Singer‎ (4 P)
• Films based on works by Nicholas Sparks‎ (12 P)
• Films based on works by Mickey Spillane‎ (10 P)
• Films based on works by Danielle Steel‎ (19 P)
• Films based on works by John Steinbeck‎ (18 P)
• Films based on works by R. L. Stine‎ (12 P)
• Films based on works by Adela Rogers St. Johns‎ (10 P)
• Films based on works by Harriet Beecher Stowe‎ (11 P)
• Films based on works by Gene Stratton-Porter‎ (20 P)
• Films based on works by Peter Straub‎ (2 P)
• Films based on works by Whitley Strieber‎ (3 P)
• Films based on works by Preston Sturges‎ (6 P)

T

• Films based on works by Booth Tarkington‎ (40 P)
• Films based on works by Hunter S. Thompson‎ (3 P)
• Films based on Jim Thompson novels‎ (10 P)
• Films based on works by James Thurber‎ (7 P)
• Films based on works by Anna Todd‎ (3 P)
• Films based on works by Mark Twain‎ (4 C, 12 P)

V

• Films based on works by Chris Van Allsburg‎ (5 P)
• Films based on works by Gore Vidal‎ (6 P)
• Films based on works by Kurt Vonnegut‎ (10 P)

W

• Films based on works by Irving Wallace‎ (5 P)
• Films based on works by Donald E. Westlake‎ (19 P)
• Films based on works by Edith Wharton‎ (13 P)
• Films based on works by William Wharton (author)‎ (3 P)
• Films based on novels by E. B. White‎ (7 P)
• Films based on works by Grace Miller White‎ (9 P)
• Films based on works by Robb White‎ (6 P)
• Films based on works by Kate Douglas Wiggin‎ (7 P)
• Films based on works by Hagar Wilde‎ (3 P)
• Films based on works by Tennessee Williams‎ (23 P)
• Films based on works by Alice Williamson‎ (11 P)
• Films based on works by Tom Wolfe‎ (3 P)
• Films based on works by Cornell Woolrich‎ (29 P)
• Films based on works by Linda Woolverton‎ (2 P)
• Films based on works by Herman Wouk‎ (7 P)
• Films based on works by Philip Wylie‎ (8 P)
• Films based on works by I. A. R. Wylie‎ (18 P)

Y

• Films based on works by Anzia Yezierska‎ (2 P)

A

• All Soul's Eve

C

• Clouds (2020 film)
• The Curious Conduct of Judge Legarde

D

• Doubting Thomas (1935 film)

F

• Friendly Enemies (1942 film)

G

• Gangs of New York
• Go West, Young Man (1936 film)

H

• Her First Affaire (film)

J

• Johnny Belinda (1948 film)
• The Joker Is Wild

K

• Key Largo (film)

M

• Marley & Me (film)

N

• Nicholas and Alexandra

P

• The Pursuit of Happyness

S

• The Silver Skates (film)
• Something the Lord Made
• Strongheart (film)

T

• A Thunder of Drums