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.
William Hope Hodgson novel, in which he poured out his imagination at its most unbridled, and not his last. Gafford writes: "This concern over the order of composition of the novels may seem of little importance until we consider the implications toward Hodgson's work overall. .. in effect, Hodgson moved away from "TNL"’s quasi-science fiction scenario (which contained an astounding number of original conceptions) and toward "BoGC"’s more basic adventure slant." If we accept Gafford's thesis, then Hodgson actually wrote "The Boats of the "Glen Carrig"" last, and it benefits from the modernization of style to the point where it is Hodgson's most