Waldo Miller Salt (October 18, 1914 – March 7, 1987) was an American screenwriter. He received two Academy Awards for Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Coming Home (1978).
Mikey Saber -- charismatic con man and washed-up star -- plots his return to the big time from small-town Texas in this story of an American hustler and a hometown that barely tolerates him.