Noun
co-screenwriter (plural co-screenwriters)
Alternative form of coscreenwriter
Ennio Flaiano, the film's co-screenwriter and creator of Paparazzo, explained that he took the name from Signor Paparazzo, a character in George Gissing 's novel By the Ionian Sea (1901). Source: Internet
The book was then passed onto Mardik Martin, the film's eventual co-screenwriter, who said "the trouble is the damn thing has been done a hundred times before—a fighter who has trouble with his brother and his wife and the mob is after him". Source: Internet