About James Ivory Books
James Ivory is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter. His directorial work includes the classic film Shakespeare Wallah, made in India in 1965, and also A Room with a View, Howards End, and The Remains of the Day. For these three films, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, and all three were nominated as well for Best Picture. In 2017, he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Call Me by Your Name. He has also won three BAFTA Awards, a Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award, and a Writers Guild of America Award, among many other honors. Peter Cameron's novels include What Happens at Night, Coral Glynn, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, and The City of Your Final Destination, which Ivory adapted for the screen as his last film. Cameron is also the author of several collections of short fiction, and more than ten of his stories have been published in The New Yorker. He has taught writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Yale University, and Columbia University.
