(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa author who wrote the novel that was turned into a movie featuring Julia Roberts has died. Nancy Jane Price’s 1987 novel “Sleeping with the Enemy” was set in her hometown of Cedar Falls and turned into the film of the same name that and featured Roberts.

Price taught at U-N-I and “Sleeping with the Enemy” was her third novel along with dozens of others and hundreds of poems. Price was 98 and died November 20th. She had just completed her final novel, which is also set in Cedar Falls, and will be released next year.