Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. James Leo Herlihy was an American novelist, playwright and actor. Born into a working class family in Detroit, Michigan, Herlihy is known for his novels Midnight Cowboy and All Fall Down and his play Blue Denim, all of which were adapted for cinema. Other publications include The Season of the Witch and several short stories. Herlihy enlisted with the Navy in 1944. He attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina for two years, where he studied sculpture. He then relocated to California and attended the Pasadena Playhouse College of the Theater. Plays which he wrote include Streetlight Sonata, Moon in Capricorn, and Blue Denim. He directed actress Tallulah Bankhead in a touring production of his play Crazy October in 1959. Three of his one-act plays, titled collectively Stop You're Killing Me were presented by the Theater Company of Boston in 1969. He wrote three novels: All Fall Down, Midnight Cowboy, and Season of the Witch