Michael Mcdowell's Beetlejuice

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Michael McDowell is the writer of the screenplay Beetlejuice, directed by one of my favorite directors, Tim Burton. He is a horror/fantasy novelist and screenwriter from Alabama. McDowell was born on June 1st, 1950 and died on December 27th, 1999 in Boston, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. and an M.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D in English in 1978 from Brandeis University. He lived in Medford, Massachusetts and had a sister, Ann, and a brother, James. Michael McDowell collected death memorabilia, he had a very diverse and extensive collection which filled over seventy-six boxes. He had death pins, photographs, plaques from infant caskets, and more. The collection went to the Northwestern University in Chicago and was put on display fourteen years