Karl Alexander (Author)

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Karl Alexander (born on August 23, 1938 in Los Angeles ; died on March 30, 2015 there ) was an American novelist.

Life

Karl Alexander, born and raised in Los Angeles, was the son and nephew of screenwriters. His father William Tunberg wrote the screenplay for Old Yeller and his uncle Karl Tunberg wrote the screenplay for Ben-Hur . Alexander himself also worked in various positions in the film industry, including cameraman, electrician, and lighting technician.

Alexander's first novel Time After Time was published in 1979 and was adapted as a successful film in 1979 under the same title, as a musical in 2010 and as a television series for its world premiere in autumn 2016. In the novel escapes Jack the Ripper in 1893 of persecution by the time machine of HG Wells steals and in San Francisco continues its series of murders of the year 1979th Wells follows the Ripper through time and there are various tense entanglements. In Jaclyn the Ripper (2009), Alexander's sequel to Time After Time , Ripper, now transformed into a woman, murders his way through Los Angeles in 2010, while Wells continues to track him down. Time-Crossed Lovers (2012) is also a time travel novel, where the malfunction of an electric chair sends the death row inmate into the past.

The crime thriller A Private Investigation was the template for the television film Missing Pieces (1983, German title: Shards of a Murder ).

Alexander died in West Los Angeles in March 2015 of complications from lung cancer attributed to Agent Orange , to which he was exposed during the Vietnam War.

bibliography

Time After Time (series of novels)
  • 1 Time After Time (1979; with Karl Alexander)
  • 2 Jaclyn the Ripper (2009)
Novels
  • A Private Investigation (1980, template for Missing Pieces )
  • The Curse of the Vampire (1982)
  • Papa and Fidel: A Novel (2010)
  • Time-Crossed Lovers (2012)
Short stories
  • Raphael's Shroud (2015, in: Del Howison and Joseph Nassise (Eds.): Midian Unmade: Tales of Clive Barker's Nightbreed )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Alexander. In: The Acorn. June 25, 2015, accessed February 8, 2020 (English, obituary).
personal data
SURNAME Alexander, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American novelist
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 2015
Place of death los Angeles