Editing Father Damien (section)

===Literature===
* Screenwriter and film director [[John Farrow]] wrote the biography ''[[Damien the Leper]]'' (1937).<ref>{{cite book |last=Farrow |first=John |date=1937 |title=Damien the Leper |location=Camden, N.J. |publisher=[[Sheed and Ward]] |oclc=8018072 }}</ref> In 1939, [[RKO Pictures]] purchased the book for a feature film titled ''Father Damien'', to be directed by Farrow and star [[Joseph Calleia]].<ref>{{cite news |date=17 May 1939 |title='Damien the Leper' Purchased by RKO; Robert Sisk to Be the Producer – Joseph Calleia Has Been Assigned to Title Role |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A0CE4DD1730E53ABC4F52DFB3668382629EDE |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=2015-11-27 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |date=1 July 1939 |title=Hollywood Buys 45 More Stories to Add to 1940 Feature Programs  |url=https://archive.org/stream/motionpictureher136unse#page/n34/mode/1up |journal=[[Motion Picture Herald]] |volume=136 |issue=1 |page=34 |access-date=2015-11-27}}</ref> The project was not realized.
* The poetic dramatization ''Father Damien'' (1938) was written by Edward Snelson, later Joint Secretary to the Government of India (1947), KBE, and dedicated 'To G.,' the actress Greer Garson, to whom he had been married in 1933.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Father Damien – A Play|last=Snelson|first=Edward|publisher=Longmans, Green and Co., London-New York-Toronto|year=1938}}</ref>
* The one-person play ''[[Damien (play)|Damien]]'' by Aldyth Morris was broadcast nationally on PBS in the United States in 1978 and again in 1986 on "American Playhouse." The broadcast received several recognitions, including a Peabody Award.
* The 2016 novel ''God Made Us Monsters'' by William Neary explores Father Damien's rise to sainthood.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.billneary.com/about-bill-neary/|title=About Bill Neary|website=www.billneary.com|access-date=2016-06-01|archive-date=22 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160522045819/http://www.billneary.com/about-bill-neary/|url-status=dead}}</ref>