sentences:  While writing and rewriting the script that would become his first film, "Silent Lies", he worked on his first book, a photo-anthology called "Uncommon Heroes" that won a Stonewall Book Award from the American Library Association in 1996.Bernstein and his partner on the project, Phillip Sherman, tied with writer Dorothy Allison.His book about the rise and fall of Confidential (magazine) in the 1950s, "Mr.