Laird Koenig

Laird Koenig (born 24 September 1927 in Seattle, Washington) is an American author. His best-known work is The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, a novel published in 1974. The novel was adapted into a movie starring Jodie Foster. He also wrote a play based on the novel.

Novels

• The Children are Watching (w. Peter L. Dixon), Ballantine, 1970 (filmed as Attention, les enfants regardent, 1978)
• The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1974 (filmed 1976)
• Islands, Dell, 1980
• The Neighbor, Avon, 1978 (filmed as Killing 'em Softly, 1982)
• Rockabye, St. Martin's Press, 1981 (filmed 1986)
• The Disciple, Bantam, 1983
• The Sea Wife, Warner Books, 1986
• Elephant Thunder, Macmillan Children's Books, 1999

Screenplays

• The Cat (w. William Redlin), 1966
• Flipper (TV series), episodes, 1966-1967
• The High Chaparral (TV series), episodes, 1970
• Soleil Rouge [Red Sun] [w. Dene Bart Petitclerc, William Roberts, Lawrence Roman], 1971
• The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, 1976 (from own novel)
• Bloodline, 1979 (from Sidney Sheldon novel)
• Inchon (w. Robin Moore), 1981 (from story by Moore and Paul Savage)
• Rockabye, 1986 (from own novel)
• Stillwatch (w. David E. Peckinpah), 1987 (from Mary Higgins Clark novel)
• The Fulfilment of Mary Gray, 1989 (from LaVyrle Spencer novel)
• Tennessee Nights, 1989 (from Hans Werner Kettenbach novel)
• Lady Against the Odds [w. Bruce Murkoff], 1992 [from Rex Stout novel, The Hand in the Glove]

Adaptations

• (Unknown) for "Intrigues" (French TV series), 1985 (probably The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane)