1950–2009 · American screenwriter, director and producer
John Wilden Hughes Jr. was the writer-director who defined the American teen film of the 1980s — Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off — before moving into the broad family comedies (Home Alone, Uncle Buck) that made him one of the most commercially successful screenwriters of his era. He set most of his films in and around Chicago, where he had spent his teenage years, and he worked fast: the production history has him finishing the Ferris Bueller screenplay in under a week in 1985. He wrote, co-produced and directed the film himself, which is why the line at issue here has exactly one author and no shared credit to hedge.