The French Lieutenant's Woman (film) Award for Best Actress, and Pinter for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The film intercuts the stories of two affairs. One is a Victorian period drama involving the gentleman palaeontologist Charles Smithson and the complex and troubled Sarah Woodruff, known as "the French lieutenant's woman." The other story is between actors Mike and Anna, playing the lead roles in a modern filming of the story. In both segments, Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep play the lead roles. John Fowles's "The French Lieutenant's Woman" had multiple endings, and the two parallel stories in the movie have different outcomes. In
Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman the novel's 1997 publication. "Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman" has been called "Walter Miller's other novel." Reviewer Steven H. Silver points out that this "... is not to say that "Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman" does not deserve to be read. It is a fantastic novel, only suffering in comparison to Miller's earlier work." Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman (1997) is a science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller, Jr. It is a follow-up to Miller's 1959 book "A Canticle for Leibowitz". Miller wrote the