William J. Fadiman, longtime Hollywood story editor, literary critic and producer, was educated at the University of Wisconsin and the Sorbonne. While still in college he wrote a literary game called "Poetic Posers" that was published regularly in the New York Herald. From the 1940s to the 1970s he supervised script development and story editors at several major studios, including MGM, RKO and Columbia. In 1970 he was hired as a literary consultant at Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.

His producing credits included Bad for Each Other (1953), )Jubal (1956)_, _The Last Frontier (1956)_ and Rampage (1963). Fadiman taught screenwriting at UCLA and the American Film Institute and wrote three books, "Hollywood Now," "Shivering in the Sun" and "The Clay Oscar".