Lionel White (9 July 1905 – 26 December 1985) was an American journalist and crime novelist, several of whose dark,
noirish stories were made into films. His books include
The Snatchers (made into a film as
The Night of the Following Day by
Hubert Cornfield starring
Marlon Brando),
The Money Trap (made into a movie by Burt Kennedy starring
Glenn Ford and
Elke Sommer),
The Big Caper (made into a film by Robert Stevens starring
Rory Calhoun),
Death Takes the Bus,
Clean Break (adapted by
Stanley Kubrick as the basis for his 1956 film,
The Killing), and
Obsession (adapted by
Jean-Luc Godard as the basis for his 1965 film,
Pierrot le fou) and by the Finnish director Seppo Huunonen for the 1974 film
The Hair (Karvat) and
Rafferty, adapted by 1980 Soviet
Lenfilm production of the same title.