Ms. Jhabvala said she wrote her first screenplay "as blindly as I went to India, " but her collaboration with Merchant-Ivory went on to produce more than 20 films, including "Shakespeare-Wallah" (1965), "The Bostonians" (1984) and "The Remains of the Day" (1993).
WSJ: Award-Winning Author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Dies at 85