Sentence:  Of straight dramas , there are All the Way Home , which owes much of its poetic power to the James Agee novel , A Death in the Family ; The Wall , awkwardly based on the John Hersey novel ; Advise and Consent , lively but shallow theater drawn from the mountainously detailed bestseller ; Face of a Hero ( closed ) , <WSD>based</WSD> on a Pierre Boulle novel . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  use as a basis for; found on