After writing four great American novels (The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, As I Lay Dying and Absalom! Absalom!) and winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936, William Faulkner turned to screenplay. He contributed to the writing of To Have and Have Not (1944), which stars Humphrey Bogart and is based on a novel by Ernest Hemingway. Though Hemingway had already stated that to read Faulkner, one had to "wade through a lot of crap to get to his gold," the competitive relationship between the two writers did not seem to affect Faulkner's work on the screenplay.
Faulkner later contributed The Big Sleep (1946), a detective film which also starred Humphrey Bogart.
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