Bari Wood
Bari Wood (born December 31, 1936 in Jacksonville , Illinois ) is an American science fiction , mystery and horror author.
Life
Wood grew up in and near Chicago and graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston , Illinois in English. She moved to New York City in 1957 , where she worked first in the library of the American Cancer Society (ACS), later as editor of the ACS journal CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians and the medical journal Drug Therapy before joining the beginning of the Turned to writing in the 1970s.
Wood published seven novels between 1974 and 1995. She wrote her debut novel Twins in 1974 with Jack Geasland ; it was made into a film in 1988 as The Inseparable by David Cronenberg . Neil Jordan filmed the 1993 mystery thriller Puppenauge under the title Jenseits der Träume (orig. In Dreams ). The novel The Killing Gift , published in 1975, was awarded the Putnam Prize for particularly high-quality novels.
She was with Dr. Gilbert Congdon Wood (1915-2000), a biologist and cancer researcher with the ACS, married. Since 1981 they lived in a former farmhouse in Ridgefield , Connecticut .
Works
- 1974: Twins - German edition Zwillinge 1982, later published under the title Die Unzertrennlichen ; Drafted with Jack Geasland
- 1975: The Killing Gift - German edition Deadly Moments 1978
- 1981: The Tribe
- 1984: Lightsource
- 1986: Amy Girl - Engelsgesicht 1995 edition
- 1993: Doll's Eyes - German edition doll's eye 1996
- 1995: The Basement
Film adaptations
- 1988: The Dead Ringers - based on the novel Twins
- 1999: Beyond the Dreams (In Dreams) - based on the novel Doll's Eyes
Web links
- Literature by and about Bari Wood in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bari Wood in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bari Wood in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Works by and about Bari Wood at Open Library
- Fantastic fiction
- Notable Ridgefielders
- Illinois Center For The Book
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The Bowker annual of library and book trade information , Volume 21, New York, NY: RR Bowker, 1976, p. 430.
- ↑ http://jackfsanders.tripod.com/SZ.htm
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wood, Bari |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wood, Bari E. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American science fiction, mystery and horror writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 31, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jacksonville , Illinois |