Question: What writer's novel was turned into a dark comedy with music by cellist Caroline Dale?
Context: Downright Dencey is a 1927 children historical novel by Caroline Dale Snedeker.  The novel, illustrated by Maginel Wright Barney, was first published in 1927 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1928. Warren Adler (born December 16, 1927) is an American author who has written forty books, twelve of which he sold the film rights to.  He is best known for "The War of the Roses" novel, the fictionalization of a macabre divorce.  This dark comedy was soon turned into a "movie" starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito. Welcome Zindagi (Marathi: वेलकम जिंदगी) is a Marathi language film.  The film is a dark comedy about a girl who wants to end it all, and a boy who will change her perception of life.  The movie is a dark comedy about life and death.  The film is a remake of successful Bengali language film, "Hemlock Society", which starred Koel Mallick and Parambrata Chatterjee in lead roles. Vicki Caroline Cheatwood is an American playwright and screenwriter, who has been produced Off-Off-Broadway and throughout the United States.  In 2002, her screenplay "Air" (Escopa Films) won the Special Jury Gold Award at Worldfest Film Festival, and in 2005, the dark comedy feature "10:10" was a finalist in the Austin Film Festival.  In 2009 her short film "Break" premiered in New York.  She has been a finalist for several national playwriting honors, including the Heideman Award ("The Risen Chris", Actors Theater of Louisville), The Julie Harris Playwright Award ("An Hour South"), and the Eileen Heckart Drama Award ("Manicures & Monuments").  Current front-burner projects include the feature film script "The Road Goes On Forever", based on the hit song by Robert Earl Keen (Caliber Media Company, Beverly Hills, CA). Atonement: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack from the 2007 film "Atonement", composed by Dario Marianelli and performed by the English Chamber Orchestra, French classical pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and cellist Caroline Dale.  This was their second collaboration with director Joe Wright, following the soundtrack for his 2005 adaptation of "Pride & Prejudice". Caroline Dale (born 1965) is a widely recorded British cellist who has performed music for numerous films, including "Truly, Madly, Deeply", "Hilary and Jackie", "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", as well as the 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" and 2007's Academy Award winner "Atonement".  She played on U2's latest album and currently plays Principal Cello for the English Chamber Orchestra and London Metropolitan Orchestra. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (marketed as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2) is a 1986 American dark comedy slasher film directed by Tobe Hooper and serves as a sequel to "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre", also directed and co-written by Hooper.  It was written by L. M. Kit Carson and produced by Carson, Yoram Globus, Menahem Golan and Hooper.  Starring Dennis Hopper, Caroline Williams, Bill Johnson, Bill Moseley and Jim Siedow, the plot follows a radio host victimized and captured by Leatherface and his cannibalistic family while a former Texas S.G. “Scott” Browne is an American author of dark comedy and social satire.  His debut novel, "", is a dark rom-zom-com (romantic-zombie-comedy) told from the point of view of a zombie.  His second novel, "Fated", a black comedy about fate and destiny, was released November 2, 2010. " Lucky Bastard", a novel about a man with the ability to steal other people's luck with a handshake, was released April 17, 2012 and was his third published novel.  His fourth novel is "Big Egos", released August, 2013.  Big Egos is about a drug that lets the user become an authorized fictional character or dead celebrity for 6–8 hours, and a quality assurance employee who takes on an unsafe number of artificial identities. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a 1998 American black comedy road film adapted from Hunter S. Thompson's novel of the same name.  It was co-written and directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Johnny Depp as Raoul Duke and Benicio del Toro as Dr. Gonzo.  The two embark on an initially assigned journey with journalistic purpose which turns out to be an exploration of the Las Vegas setting under the effect of psychoactive substances. Caroline Dale Snedeker née Parke (March 3, 1871 – January 22, 1956) was an American writer, primarily of children's historical novels.  Two of her books, "Downright Dencey" and "The Forgotten Daughter", were runners-up for the Newbery Medal.  On occasion she used the pen name Caroline Dale Owen.
Answer: Hunter S. Thompson