Maplewood Author's Screenplay Takes 2nd in Regional Competition

The author has been entering the CinemaSpoke contest since 2001. In previous years he's received an honorable mention and been in the top five.

A Maplewood author was recognized in November for a screenplay adaptation of an American novel written in 1799. Steven Clark took second place in the annual CinemaSpoke screenplay competition for his adaptation of the 1799 novel, Edgar Huntly, by Charles Brockden Brown. “It’s Edgar Allen Poe meets the Last of the Mohicans,” he said. “We have the first American murder mystery, we have ghosts, we have a sleepwalker, we have a young man unsure of himself, Indian attacks. One thing I think the judges liked, it had a lot of action in it.” Clark received an honorable mention in 2001 and last year was one of five finalists. He said this year’s winner was a zombie movie. “Can’t fight zombies,” he said. Anyone within 150 miles of St. Louis can …

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