Title: The Desperate Hours (Aiello novel)
Content:  The Desperate Hours is a crime novel by the American writer Robert Aiello set in contemporary Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It opens when a psychopath with a score to settle with Grant Montgomery kidnaps his girlfriend. Both the police and Montgomery race against time find the woman alive and to rescue her.
Title: The Desperate Hours (1967 film)
Content:  The Desperate Hours is a 1967 TV film. It was an adaptation of the 1954 novel The Desperate Hours.
Title: The Desperate Hours (Hayes novel)
Content: The Desperate Hours (1955 play) ; The Desperate Hours (1955 film) ; The Desperate Hours (1967 TV movie) ; 36 Ghante (1974 film) ; Desperate Hours (1990 film) 
Title: The Desperate Hours (play)
Content:  The Desperate Hours is a 1955 play by Joseph Hayes, based on his 1954 thriller novel of the same title. The story, about three escaped convicts invading a family's home and holding them hostage, was the basis for the films The Desperate Hours in 1955 and Desperate Hours in 1990. The play opened in New Haven's Shubert Theatre in 1955 before premiering on Broadway later that year. The Desperate Hours won Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Direction in 1955.
Title: Desperate Hours
Content:  Desperate Hours is a 1990 American neo-noir action thriller film, and a remake of the 1955 William Wyler crime drama of the same title. Both films are based on the 1954 novel by Joseph Hayes, who also co-wrote the script for this film with Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal. (Rosenthal and Konner's other collaborations include the screenplay of Superman IV: The Quest For Peace.) Desperate Hours stars Mickey Rourke, Anthony Hopkins, Mimi Rogers, Kelly Lynch, Lindsay Crouse, Elias Koteas and David Morse. It is directed by Michael Cimino, who had previously worked with Rourke on the films Heaven's Gate and Year of the Dragon.
Title: The Desperate Hours (Aiello novel)
Content:  Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2006.
Title: The Desperate Hours (1967 film)
Content: George Segal as Glenn Griffin ; Arthur Hill as Dan Hilliard ; Michael Conrad as Sam Robish ; Mart Hulswit as Graham Jarvis ; Michael Kearney as Ralphie Hilliard ; Yvette Mimieux as Cindy Hilliard ; Barry Primus as Hank Griffin ; Dolph Sweet as Jesse Bard ; Ralph Waite as Lt. Fredericks ; Teresa Wright as Eleanor Hilliard 
Title: The Desperate Hours (1955 film)
Content: Humphrey Bogart as Glenn Griffin ; Fredric March as Daniel C. Hilliard ; Arthur Kennedy as Deputy Sheriff Jesse Bard ; Martha Scott as Ellie Hilliard ; Dewey Martin as Hal Griffin ; Gig Young as Chuck Wright ; Mary Murphy as Cindy Hilliard ; Richard Eyer as Ralphy Hilliard ; Robert Middleton as Samuel Kobish ; Walter Baldwin as George Patterson ; Whit Bissell as FBI Agent Carson ; Ray Teal as State Police Lieutenant ; Ray Collins as Sheriff Masters ; Simon Oakland as State Trooper (uncredited) ; Burt Mustin as Night Watchman ("Carl") (uncredited) ; Alan Reed as Policeman ("Dutch") ; Joe Flynn as motorist (uncredited) ; Beverly Garland as Miss Swift 
Title: The Desperate Hours (1967 film)
Content:  The film was originally going to star George Segal and Robert Stack. Stack then read the script, was unhappy his role – that of the father – had been changed into a "psychopathic heavy" and pulled out, saying it "wasn't the same story" as the novel and play.
Title: Desperate Hours
Content: Mickey Rourke as Michael Bosworth ; Anthony Hopkins as Tim Cornell ; Mimi Rogers as Nora Cornell ; Kelly Lynch as Nancy Breyers ; Lindsay Crouse as FBI Agent Chandler ; Elias Koteas as Wally Bosworth ; David Morse as Albert ; Shawnee Smith as May Cornell ; Danny Gerard as Zack Cornell ; Matt McGrath as Kyle ; Gerry Bamman as Ed Tallant ; Ellen McElduff as Bank Teller 

Question: Who is the author of The Desperate Hours?
Answer: Joseph Hayes.