Charles F. Myers was the birth name of Henry Farrell, the American novelist and screenwriter, born Charles Farrell Myers on September 27, 1920, in Madera County, California. As Charles F. Myers he wrote the Toffee stories for science fiction and fantasy magazines in the 1940s and 1950s: comic fantasies about Marc Pillsworth, an advertising man, and Toffee, the red-haired dream girl who steps out of his subconscious into his waking life. "The Shades of Toffee" was the cover story of Fantastic Adventures in June 1950. As Henry Farrell he wrote the novels The Hostage (1959), What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1960), filmed in 1962 with Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, and Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me (1967), filmed by François Truffaut. With Lukas Heller he wrote the screenplay of Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), which won an Edgar Award. He died in Pacific Palisades, California, on March 29, 2006.
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