Henry Farrell

Henry Farrell was the pen name of Charles Farrell Myers, an American novelist and screenwriter born in Madera, California, in 1920. He is most closely associated with suspense and horror, especially the novel What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, which was adapted into the famous 1962 film starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.

Farrell wrote both novels and screenplays, and several of his stories made their way to the screen. His reputation rests on his flair for uneasy domestic settings, damaged characters, and the kind of gothic melodrama that feels both glamorous and unsettling.

He died in 2006 in Pacific Palisades, California. Though he is sometimes less widely remembered than the films based on his work, his fiction remains an important part of mid-century American suspense and horror storytelling.