Leonard Gardner

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Leonard Gardner (born November 3, 1933 in Stockton , California ) is an American writer.

Life

Leonard Gardner graduated from San Francisco State University . He boxed once during his time in the United States Army and at university.

Gardner published Fat City , a boxing novel, in 1969 . It shows a world without salvation , with people who already know they have lost and those who do not yet know. He also wrote the screenplay for Fat City , which was directed by John Huston in 1972, starring Stacy Keach and Jeff Bridges .

Gardner wrote a few screenplays for television and produced several episodes of the New York Cops - NYPD Blue series with Dennis Franz . He wrote literary contributions for The Paris Review , Esquire and The Southwest Review , among others . Gardner received a Guggenheim Fellowship .

The novel about his father was still unfinished on his desk in 1991, and in 2017 it was said that a new novel might appear soon.

Gardner lives in Larkspur , California.

Works

  • Fat City . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969
    • Fat city . Novel. Translation by Ursula Locke-Gross and Michael Naumann. Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1991
    • Fat City: Roman . Translation Gregor Hens . Berlin: Blumenbar, 2017

literature

  • Neil David Berman: Playful fictions and fictional players: Game, sport, and survival in contemporary American fiction . Port Washington (NY): Kennikat Press, 1981, ISBN 0-8046-9265-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Matthias Matussek : The art of losing . In: Der Spiegel . No. 19 , 1991 ( online - May 6, 1991 ).
  2. ↑ Fritz Göttler: The twitching in the back and shoulders . Review. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 29, 2017, p. 12
personal data
SURNAME Gardner, Leonard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockton , California , United States