Here’s a look at five Academy Award-winning films based on now-classic novels by women writers: Cimarron, Gone with the Wind, Rebecca, Gentleman’s Agreement, and To Kill a Mockingbird.

Novels have long provided rich narrative material for film, though it seems that this practice is less common that it was in the past. At least in the first part of the 20th century, well-regarded bestsellers were regularly adapted to film. This could be relative, though; so many more books are being published and vying for attention in the present.

Following these, you’ll find a list of a dozen more Oscar-nominated and winning films that helped cement their original novels in the public imagination, even if some of their authors are not well remembered today. Read More→