Dowling mystery series; taught for over forty years at the University of Notre Dame, where he was the director of the Jacques Maritain Center Science fiction and fantasy Diana Gabaldon – American author of the Outlander series of books Michael F. Flynn – American science fiction novelist, author of Eifelheim R. A. Lafferty – American science-fiction and fantasy novelist; by many accounts a devout and conservative Catholic Murray Leinster – American science-fiction and alternate-history novelist Walter M. Miller, Jr. – American science-fiction novelist and short-story writer; convert, then ex-Catholic; known for the novel A Canticle for Leibowitz (1960) and other Catholic-themed works Michael D. O'Brien – Canadian Catholic novelist; works include the "Father Elijah" series Tim Powers – American science-fiction and fantasy novelist; self-avowed Catholic in interviews Fred Saberhagen American science-fiction and fantasy novelist and short-story writer J. R. R. Tolkien – English writer, poet, philologist and university professor; worked on a translation of the Book of Job in the Catholic Jerusalem Bible, and saw his novel The Lord of the Rings as deeply informed by his Catholicism Gene Wolfe – American science fiction and fantasy writer; convert; a recent story of his in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine concerned a Catholic holy card John C. Wright – American science-fiction and fantasy novelist; convert; known for his The Golden Age trilogy novels and the Orphans of Chaos trilogy novels; Nebula Award finalist for his fantasy novel Orphans of Chaos Rosamund Hodge – American novelist and short-story writer; works include "Cruel Beauty" and "Crimson Bound" Screenwriters Frank Cottrell Boyce – the comedy-drama film Millions (2004) is perhaps the most "Catholic" film he has written Robert Bresson – adapted the novel Diary of a Country Priest (1936), by Georges Bernanos, to the film of the same name (1951); namesake of the Pontifical Council for Culture's "Robert Bresson Prize in Film"; influenced by Jansenism Johnny Byrne – wrote episodes of the science-fiction television series Space: 1999 (1975–1977) and Doctor Who Joe Eszterhas Eric Rohmer – French New Wave director and screenwriter and editor of the Cahiers du Cinema. His filmography shows an interest in Catholicism, and he personally attended Holy Mass every week. Leo McCarey – wrote the drama film The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) and directed the musical comedy-drama film Going My Way (1944) Writers mistaken for Catholic Jeffrey Ford – raised Catholic, but abandoned the faith in strong terms David E.