 He wrote many teleplays in the 1950s and 1960s, including adaptations of Hemingway’s "The Snows of Kilimanjaro", "The Killers", and "The Fifth Column".He also wrote the screenplay for "After the Storm", a 2001 television film adaptation of the 1932 Hemingway short story of the same name.The film, "King of the Hill" (1993), directed by Steven Soderbergh, is a screen adaptation of Hotchner's 1973 autobiographical novel of the same name.