All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Marielle Heller, ranked

The Queen’s Gambit follows the life of an orphan chess prodigy, Elizabeth Harmon, during her quest to become the world’s greatest chess player while struggling with emotional problems and drug and alcohol dependency. The story begins in the mid-1950s and proceeds into the 1960s.

In 1998, in the beginning of an episode of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Mr. Rogers displays a picture board with five doors. The fourth door is opened to reveal the face of Mr. Roger’s troubled new friend, Lloyd Vogel. Lloyd Vogel is an Esquire journalist known for his cynical writing style who is assigned a profile of Fred Rogers. Vogel will overcome his skepticism, learning about empathy, kindness, and decency from America’s most beloved neighbor.

In 1991, following the critical and commercial failure of her biography of Estée Lauder, author Lee Israel struggles with financial troubles, writer’s block, and alcoholism. Lee meets with her literary agent, Marjorie, who sharply rejects her plan for the Brice book and explains that Lee, with her difficult personality, is responsible for her own career slump.

Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she enters into an affair with her mother’s boyfriend.