Thomas Cullinan

Thomas Cullinan (1919-1995) was a novelist and playwright, as well as a writer for television. In addition to The Beguiled (1966), he wrote three other novels-- The Besieged (1970), The Eighth Sacrament (1977), and The Bedeviled (1978)--as well as several plays, which are still produced. He received a Ford Foundation grant to represent the United States at a literary colloquium in Berlin in 1964, and he wrote a weekly television program in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, both for WKYC, a...See more

Thomas Cullinan (1919-1995) was a novelist and playwright, as well as a writer for television. In addition to The Beguiled (1966), he wrote three other novels-- The Besieged (1970), The Eighth Sacrament (1977), and The Bedeviled (1978)--as well as several plays, which are still produced. He received a Ford Foundation grant to represent the United States at a literary colloquium in Berlin in 1964, and he wrote a weekly television program in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, both for WKYC, a local television affiliate, and for Case Western Reserve University. The Beguiled was made into a film twice: in 1971, starring Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page, and in 2017, directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Kirsten Dunst, and Elle Fanning. See less