Her two best-known plays are Kingfisher Days, an adaptation of her critically acclaimed memoir of the same name, and Alice's Affair.

In 2010 Murphy directed Julia Roberts in an adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir Eat, Pray, Love.

A Mighty Heart is a 2007 drama film directed by Michael Winterbottom; It is an adaptation of Mariane Pearl's memoir, A Mighty Heart.

Vanessa Redgrave stars in this adaptation of Joan Didion's heartbreaking memoir.

Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 drama film, and an adaptation of Susanna Kaysen's 1993 memoir of the same name.

Though she won the title role of Frank McCourt's mother in the adaptation of his acclaimed memoir, Angela's Ashes, the film underperformed.

A made-for-television adaptation of Priscilla Presley's memoir of her years with Elvis Presley.

"Prozac Nation," an adaptation of Elizabeth Wurtzel's memoir of the depressive misery she endured and the misery she put others through, was a bit of a letdown.

Jolie next took the supporting role of the sociopathic mental patient Lisa Rowe in Girl, Interrupted (1999), an adaptation of author Susanna Kaysen's memoir of the same name.

Arthur Laurents, the author of the show's book, a fictionalized adaptation of Lee's already fictionalized memoir, had just passed 40.