Stephen King

Stephen King loved Bates’s performance so much that Stephen King wrote the book/character Dolores Claiborne specifically with Bates in mind.

by Tobias Picker

2013: Dolores Claiborne is an American opera composed by Tobias Picker.

J.D. McClatchy

Dolores Claiborne (premiered September 18, 2013 by the San Francisco Opera, libretto by J.D. McClatchy, based on the novel by Stephen King)

a 1995 American psychological thriller drama film directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and David Strathairn

Dolores Claiborne is a 1995 American psychological thriller drama film directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and David Strathairn.

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is the author of more than 100 books, including (Dolores Claiborne, We Were the Mulvaneys, and Blonde.

at the Stephen King novel's world premiere presented by San Francisco Opera in September 2013

Picker’s fifth opera, Dolores Claiborne, based on the Stephen King novel, starred Patricia Racette and Elizabeth Futral at the Stephen King novel's world premiere presented by San Francisco Opera in September 2013.

the protagonist’s chapterless confession of what drove Dolores Claiborne to murder Dolores Claiborne's husband and also an explanation for why Dolores Claiborne didn’t murder Dolores Claiborne's employer, , despite having several good reasons for doing so Vera

Stephen King’s Dolores Claiborne is the protagonist’s chapterless confession of what drove Dolores Claiborne to murder Dolores Claiborne's husband and also an explanation for why Dolores Claiborne didn’t murder Dolores Claiborne's employer, Vera, despite having several good reasons for doing so.

by Edward Allan Baker

Written by Edward Allan Baker, Dolores is a brutally dark comedy about two sisters drawn together by shared experiences.

Janet Harvey

But here’s what I love about Dolores, as Janet Harvey has written Dolores.

Kathy Bates’s show

Dolores Claiborne is Kathy Bates’s show as Kathy Bates delivers a full-featured performance, but the supporting cast is unusually strong, what with Jennifer Jason Leigh as an estranged daughter, Christopher Plummer as a detective and a pre-stardom John C. Reilly as a policeman.