1. Aristotle:
   
   
   Poetics

2. David Ball: Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays, Southern Illinois University Press, 1990.
   
   
3. Joseph Campbell:
   
   
   The Power of Myth

4. Lajos Egri:
   
   
   Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives

5. Syd Field:
   
   
   Four Screenplays: Studies in the American Screenplay

6. Bernard Grebanier: Playwriting: How to Write for the Theater, 1979.
   
   
7. Michael Hauge:
   
   
   Writing Screenplays That Sell

8. Rick Schmidt:
   
   
   Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices: How to Write, Produce, Direct, Shoot, Edit and Promote a Feature-Lenth Movie for Less than $15,000

9. Christopher Vogler:
   
   
   Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Storytellers and Screenwriters

10. Richard Walter:
    
    
    Screenwriting: The Art, Craft, and Business of Film and Television

Screenwriting professor at the U.C.L.A. School of Theater, Film and Television Scribe of the original draft of AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973) Screenwriting seminar teacher (catch him if you can) Master presider, with fellow U.C.L.A. screenwriting professor Lew Hunter, over "pages" sessions in L.A. and at some of his seminars These are word-by-word, line-by-line mark-ups of a few pages of participant scripts performed in a group fashion. Recorder of the audio tape Screenwriting: How to Move Your Tale Writer of Whole Picture: Strategies for Screenwriting Success in the New Hollywood Author of a screenwriting-related novel based on his grizzled-veteran observations on Hollywood, one likely to be of assistance to aspiring screenwriters.

Participants in his seminars, and even those who can craft a good submission letter, benefit from his review of their scripts accompanied by a couple-page critique. Projects that completely floor him have been known to be overnighted to Hollywood players he's on professionally intimate terms with.