Oakley Hall
Oakley Maxwell Hall (born July 1, 1920 in San Diego , † May 12, 2008 in Nevada City ) was an American writer who has mainly emerged with Wild West novels. In particular his novel Warlock , published in 1958, is one of the classics of this genre today.
His last five works, published 1998–2007, are detective novels in which Hall had the writer Ambrose Bierce, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1914, “come back to life” as a detective.
Works
Novels
- Warlock (1958)
- The Bad Lands (1978)
- Apaches (1986)
- Murder City (1949)
- So Many Doors (1950)
- Corpus of Joe Bailey (1953)
- Mardios Beach (1955)
- The Pleasure Garden (1966)
- The Downhill Racers (1963)
- A Game for Eagles (1970)
- The Adelita (1975)
- Lullaby (1982)
- The Children of the Sun (1983)
- The Coming of the Kid (1985)
- Separations (1997)
- Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades (1998)
- Ambrose Bierce and the Death of Kings (2001)
- Ambrose Bierce and the One-Eyed Jacks (2003)
- Ambrose Bierce and the Trey of Pearls (2004)
- Ambrose Bierce and the Ace of Shoots (2005)
- Love and War in California (2007)
Literary didactics
- The Art and Craft of Novel Writing (1995)
- How Fiction Works (2000)
Web links
- William Grimes: Oakley Hall, 87, Novelist Attuned to the Old West, Is Dead . In: The New York Times (online edition), May 16, 2008 (obituary)
- In memoriam: Oakley Hall . Obituary on the University of California, Irvine website.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hall, Oakley |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hall, Oakley Maxwell |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Diego |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 2008 |
| Place of death | Nevada City |