Barry Gifford
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Barry Gifford (born 1946) is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes, film noir, and beat generation-influenced literary madness.
He is described by Patrick Beach as being "like if John Updike had an evil twin that grew up the wrong side of the tracks and wrote funny...". He is best known for his series of novels about two sex-driven, star crossed protagonists on the road, Sailor and Lula, that became the basis of David Lynch's film Wild at Heart. He went on to write the screenplay to Lost Highway with Lynch. Much of Gifford's work is nonfiction.
THE SAILOR & LULA SERIES:
- Wild at Heart,
- Perdita Durango,
- Sailor's Holiday,
- Sultan's of Africa,
- Consuelo's Kiss,
- Bad Day for the Leopard Man.
- Jack's Book: an oral biography of Jack Kerouac (with Lawrence Lee),
- Saroyan : A Biography,
- Out of the Past: adventures in Film Noir,
- The Sinola Story,
- American Falls: The Collected Short Stories,
- Do the Blind Dream?,
- The Phantom Father,
- Replies to Wang Wei,
- Wyoming,
- The Stars Above Veracruz,
- Read 'em and Weep,
- Back in America,
- Bordertown,
- Flaubert at Key West,
- Ghosts No Horse Can Carry,
- Hotel Room Trilogy,
- Landscape with Traveler,
- My Last Martini,
- Night People,
- Port Tropique,
- The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room: A Barry Gifford Reader.
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