Leonard Strong His 1932 novel "The Brothers" was filmed in 1947 by the Scottish director David MacDonald; it starred Patricia Roc. One reviewer commented, "In a break from tradition, the film substitutes the novel's unhappy ending with an even unhappier one." Strong collaborated on or contributed to such filmscripts as "Haunted Honeymoon" (1940; a Dorothy L. Sayers story about Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane), "Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill" (1948), and "Happy Ever After" (1954). "Kirkus Reviews" asserted in 1935, "L. A. G. Strong can be counted on for a nostalgic picture of the call of the wild, and spins a
Marry Me (novel) Marry Me (novel) Marry Me: A Romance is a 1976 novel by American writer John Updike. As in Updike's 1968 "Couples", two married households—in this case, the Conants and the Mathiases—meet and entwine. Jerry Conant's love for Sally Mathias is the primary engine of the novel; his wife Ruth's reaction, and the reaction of Sally's husband Richard, are the story's bookends. The novel was well received by critics. In "The Atlantic", Richard Todd enthusiastically welcomed the book: "'Marry Me,' for all its playfulness, is Updike's most mature work. His writing has deepened, grown wiser and funnier, like a face that