| Backstory 3 |
| Acknowledgments |
| Introduction |
| A Note on Credits |
| Jay Presson Allen: Writer by Default |
| George Axelrod: Irony! |
| Walter Bernstein: A Moral Center |
| Horton Foote: The Trip from Wharton |
| Walon Green: Fate will Get You |
| Charles B. Griffith: Not of this Earth |
| John Michael Hayes: Qué Sera, Sera |
| Ring Lardner Jr.: American Skeptic |
| Richard Matheson: Storyteller |
| Wendell Mayes: The Jobs Poured over Me |
| Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr.: Tapestry of Life |
| Arnold Schulman: Nothing but Regrets |
| Stirling Silliphant: The Finger of God |
| Terry Southern: Ultrahip |
| Bibliographic Notes |
| Notes on Interviewers |
| General Index |
| Index of Films, Plays, and Books |