Alfred Hayes (1911-1985) was an American journalist, poet, screenwriter, and novelist. Having served in Italy during World War II, he stayed on to co-write several classic Italian neorealist films, including Roberto Rossellini's "Paisa" and Vittorio De Sica's "Bicycle Thieves," as well as to gather material for his two most popular novels, "All Thy Conquests" and "The Girl on the Via Flaminia" (the basis for the 1953 film "Act of Love," starring Kirk Douglas). In the late 1940s he went to work in Hollywood for Warner Brothers, RKO, and Twentieth Century-Fox, where his screenplays included "Clash by Night," "A Hatful of Rain," "The Left Hand of God," and "Joy in the Morning." His later novels included "In Love," "My Face for the World to See," and "The End of Me." Frederic Raphael (b. 1931) is a prolific and wide-ranging author of screenplays and plays, novels and short stories, essays and reviews, histories and translations, and more. Born in Chicago and educated in England, he graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge, before becoming a full-time writer. His screenwriting credits include "Darling" (for which he won an Oscar), "Far from the Madding Crowd," "Two for the Road," and, with the director Stanley Kubrick, "Eyes Wide Shut."