A native of Enterprise, Coffee County, Michael McDowell was a noted novelist and screenwriter who was best known for his screenplays for Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and Beetlejuice, both of which also starred fellow Alabamian Glenn Shadix.
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