John William Corrington (October 28, 1932 – November 24, 1988) was an American film and television writer,[1] novelist, poet and lawyer.

A Roman Catholic,[2] Corrington attended St. John's High School (now known as Loyola College Prep), but was expelled after smoking cigarettes on the front steps of the parish church next door.

Corrington also published four books of short stories, The Lonesome Traveler (1968), The Actes and Monuments (1978), The Southern Reporter (1981) and All My Trials (1987) and four novels, And Wait for the Night (1964), The Upper Hand (1967), The Bombardier (1970), and Shad Sentell (1984).

[citation needed] With his wife, Joyce, Corrington wrote five screenplays, Von Richthofen and Brown (1969), The Omega Man (1970),[4] Boxcar Bertha (1971),[1] The Arena (1972), and Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) and a television film, The Killer Bees (1974).

[citation needed] During this time, the Corringtons also published So Small a Carnival (1986), A Project Named Desire (1987), A Civil Death (1987), and The White Zone (1990).