Biography
John William Corrington (1932–1988) was an American screenwriter, novelist, poet and lawyer. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, he collaborated with his wife Joyce Hooper Corrington on several film screenplays in the early 1970s.
Their credits include Von Richthofen and Brown (1971), The Omega Man (1971), Boxcar Bertha (1972), The Arena (1974) and the screenplay for Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973). Corrington had an earlier career as a writer of fiction and poetry, and later worked with his wife as a head writer on daytime television serials including Search for Tomorrow, Another World, General Hospital and One Life to Live.
