Which writer did Howard Hawks help introduce to the motion-picture industry?

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Howard Hawks stands at right, speaking with actors John Wayne, Dean Martin, and Ricky Nelson in cowboy costumes on the set of the western film Rio Bravo. — Howard Hawks Howard Hawks (right) directing (from left to right) John Wayne, Dean Martin, and Ricky Nelson in *Rio Bravo* (1959).

Howard Hawks helped introduce the novelist William Faulkner to the motion-picture industry. Hawks brought Faulkner to Hollywood to adapt one of his own short stories for the 1933 film Today We Live.1