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Warren Adler


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December 16, 1927

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April 15, 2019

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Acclaimed author, playwright, poet, and essayist Warren Adler is best known for The War of the Roses, his masterpiece fictionalization of a macabre divorce that was adapted into the iconic dark comedy that starred Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito. Following the success of his The War of the Roses, Adler went on to option and sell film rights to more than a dozen of his novels and short stories to Hollywood and major television networks. Random Hearts, The Sunset Gang, Private Lies, Funny Boys, Madeline’s Miracles, Trans-Siberian Express and his Fiona Fitzgerald mystery series are only a few titles that have forever left Adler’s mark on contemporary American authorship from page to stage to screen.

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“The hardest part is the guilt,” Glen told her. “Being away from you at night and the weekends.”


“You could do something about it,” Sara replied. This is not the first time she had heard his plaint, for which she had little sympathy. Besides, she had her own ax to grind. She did not like being defined as his mistress, which was the more honest description. She preferred the word “lover” to describe

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Average rating: 3.61 · 3,875 ratings · 726 reviews · 104 distinct worksSimilar authors
The War of the Roses

3.48 avg rating — 788 ratings — published 1981 — 18 editions
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Target Churchill

4.31 avg rating — 446 ratings — published 2013 — 16 editions
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Random Hearts

3.28 avg rating — 316 ratings — published 1984 — 36 editions
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Mother Nile

3.67 avg rating — 181 ratings6 editions
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Trans-Siberian Express

3.80 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 1977 — 36 editions
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American Quartet (Fiona Fit...

3.35 avg rating — 195 ratings — published 1981 — 24 editions
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We Are Holding the Presiden...

3.97 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 1986 — 17 editions
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Finding Grace: Captured by ...

3.50 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions
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The Children of the Roses

3.31 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2004 — 23 editions
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Cult

3.27 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2002 — 19 editions
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Quotes by Warren Adler  (?)
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“The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead”
Warren Adler

“Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.”
Warren Adler

“No one ever wins a generational war.”
Warren Adler, Cult

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