Fred Dillen (’76) has written three novels: Hero (Steerforth), Fool (Algonquin), and Beauty (Simon and Schuster). Hero got noticed in the NY Sunday Times, the TLS, and as a Best First Novel in the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Fred’s screenplay of Hero was developed at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference and subsequently optioned. Beauty was a Favorite Book of 2014 in the Wall Street Journal and was optioned in manuscript for a film. Fool got admiring notice in the Sunday Times, was reprinted in Nancy Pearl’s rediscovery series and optioned for a film.