Marsha Norman she could not have written it. According to an interview in "The New York Times", "Ms. Norman stayed away from the theater and turned to screenplays, including a 1986 movie adaptation of " 'Night, Mother" that starred Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft and failed to impress critics. She was in high demand in Hollywood, though not always for films that she liked, or that studios would approve." Norman wrote the book and lyrics for the musical "The Secret Garden", an adaptation of the Frances Hodgson Burnett novel "The Secret Garden", and won the Tony Award for Best Book in 1991.
Sahib for many years, even when no Indian or Pakistani crew featured in the ship's company. The term is used throughout the children's novel "A Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett. In Herman Cyril McNeile's 1920 novel "Bulldog Drummond", an Indian magician was performing tricks in front of a crowd and drew attention to a mysterious box. E.M. Forster also employed the term in his 1924 novel "A Passage to India". His Anglo-Indian characters refer to the Collector as Burra Sahib, implying the respect felt for him. The following dialogue in Dorothy Sayers's 1926 novel "Clouds of Witness" shows what the