Barry Gifford
Barry Gifford (born October 18, 1946 in Chicago ) is an American writer and screenwriter. He gained fame primarily through his series of novels Sailor and Lula . The first part was filmed in 1990 under the title Wild at Heart - The Story of Sailor and Lula by David Lynch . The film Perdita Durango is also based on this series of novels.
Life
Gifford was born in Chicago to a Jew and an Irish Catholic. After college, he went to the Air Force Reserves . Gifford embarked on a career in writing after flirting with a career in baseball for some time.
Numerous novels, volumes of poetry and short stories as well as non-fiction and screenplays followed.
Works
Prose works
- A Boy's Novel (1973)
- Landscape With Traveler: The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves (1980)
- Port Tropique (1980)
- Francis Goes to the Seashore (1982)
- Unfortunate Woman (1983)
- Wild at Heart: The Story of Sailor and Lula (1990) - Part 1 in the Sailor and Lula series (Eng. The saga of Sailor and Lula . Goldmann , 1991. ISBN 978-3-442-41095-8 )
- New Mysteries of Paris (1991)
- Sailor's Holiday: The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula (1991) - Part 2 in the Sailor and Lula series
- 59 ° and Raining: The Story of Perdita Durango (1992) - Part 3 in the Sailor and Lula series
- Night People (1992)
- A Good Man to Know: A Semi-Documentary Fictional Memoir (1992)
- Arise and Walk (1995)
- Baby Cat-Face (1995) - Sailor and Lula make a brief appearance
- Sultans of Africa - Part 4 in the Sailor and Lula series
- Consuelo's Kiss - Part 5 in the Sailor and Lula series
- The Sinaloa Story (1998)
- Wyoming (2000)
- Bad Day for the Leopard Man - Part 6 in the Sailor and Lula series
- Do the blind dream? (2005)
- The Stars Above Veracruz (2006)
- Imagination of the Heart (2007) - Part 7 in the Sailor and Lula series
- Memories from a Sinking Ship (2007)
- Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels (2010)
- Sad Stories of the Death of Kings (2010)
Volumes of poetry
- The Blood of the Parade (1967)
- Coyote Tantras (1973)
- Persimmons: Poems for Paintings (1976)
- The Boy You Have Always Loved (1976)
- A Quinzaine in Return for a Portrait of Mary Sun (1977)
- Lives of the French Impressionist Painters (1978)
- Horse Hauling Timber out of Hokkaido Forest (1979)
- Beautiful Phantoms: Selected Poems 1968-1980 (1981)
- Giotto's Circle (1987)
- Ghosts No Horse Can Carry: Collected Poems 1967-1987 (1989)
- Flaubert at Key West (1994)
- Replies to Wang Wei
- Imagining Paradise: New and Selected Poems (2012)
Scripts
- 1990: Wild at Heart
- 1993: Hotel Room (TV series, 2 episodes)
- 1997: Lost Highway
- 1997: Perdita Durango
- 2002: City of Ghosts
Web links
- Literature by and about Barry Gifford in the catalog of the German National Library
- Barry Gifford in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of Barry Gifford
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gifford, Barry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago |