Having only read one of his works, but recognizing his meteoric rise for its impact on the zeitgeist, Noah Hawley deserves to be recommended as quickly as I can.
Hawley has made a career of adapting for TV the unadaptable. In 2014, he transformed the classic, some say the perfect, Coen brothers film "Fargo" into an FX television series that embraced the idiosyncrasies of the movie to great acclaim. Now with "Legion" on FX, Hawley is tackling the most challenging of iconoclasts, a superhero of the mind.
Hawley is one of a handful of writers who currently enjoy unprecedented creative freedom and TV has never been better because of it. In the midst of all this, he manages to write mystery novels, and I can highly recommend Before the Fall (2016) which is already being adapted for film.
Before one writes off this talented writer as just a TV guy, know that his love of literature shows in all he does. His next project is adapting for FX Kurt Vonnegut's acerbic classic Cats Cradle, I for one can hardly wait.
TV has never been better and it is because writers are, for now, in control, long may it last.
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