In 1996, Columbia/Tristar released a film (Solo) based on Mason's first novel, but which used the title of the second.

One of his first stage a play Uncle's dream (based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel of the same name) where he played the uncle.

Only once, she says, did she pursue a role: that of the mother in "Postcards From the Edge," based on her daughter's semiautobiographical novel.

The 1997 movie Contact, based on Sagan's novel of the same name and finished after his death, ends with the dedication "For Carl".

The film - which is based on Lynne Ramsay's novel of the .

Exodus, 1960 (based on Leon Uris' 1958 novel of the same name)

Play It as It Lays (1972) (based on her novel)

Miki composed his first opera, Shunkinsho (based on Tanizaki's novel of the same title), in 1975.

The Legend of Hell House (based on his novel) (1973)

Somewhere in Time (based on his novel) (1980)