William Bayer

William Bayer

William Bayer (born February 20, 1939 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is an American writer.

Life

Bayer is the son of Attorney Leo Bayer and his wife, screenwriter Eleanor Perry . In addition to their bread-and-butter jobs, both parents also wrote some crime novels under the pseudonym Oliver Weld Bayer .

Bayer began school in 1946 at the Sidwell Friends School ( Washington, DC ); it was followed by the Hawken School ( Lyndhurst, Ohio ) and the Philipps Exeter Academy ( Exeter ). Immediately thereafter, he began to study at Harvard College and was able to successfully complete this course (including art history) in 1960.

His first attempts at writing began at university, and in 1962 Bayer made his successful debut with his novel In search of a hero . Between 1962 and 1968 Bayer worked for the United States Information Agency . During this time he married the writer Paula Wolfert and lived with her successively in Tangier , New York and San Francisco . Bayer currently (2011) lives with his wife in Sonoma , California .

reception

With the exception of two novels, which Bayer published under the pseudonym David Hunt , all of his works were published under his real name. Worth mentioning is the cycle around its protagonist Frank Janek, a police lieutenant of the NYPD .

Honors

• 1970 Golden Hugo Award ( Chicago International Film Festival ) for his film Mississippi Summer .
• 1982 Edgar Allan Poe Award ( MWA ) for his novel Peregrine .
• 1994 Prix ​​Caliber 38 for his novel Mirror Maze .
• 1997 Lambda Literary Award for his novel The magician's tale .
• 2004 Prix ​​Mystère de la critique for his novel The dream of the broken horses .

Works (selection)

As William Bayer

Scripts

• Robert Iscove (Director): Inspector Janek and the Broadway Murderer ("The silent betrayal"). 1994.
• Robert Iscove (Director): Inspector Janek und der Psychomörder ("The Forget-me-not-murders"). 1994 (based on the novel Wallflower ).
• Larry Elikann (Director): When love kills. The seduction of John Hearn . 1993.
• Robert Iscove (Director): The Angel of Death from Grand Central ("Terror on track 9"). 1992.
• Jud Taylor (Director): The Murderer in the Dark ("Murder Times Seven"). 1990.
• Michael Tuchner (Director): Cops in the Twilight (“Internal affairs”). 1988.
• Jud Taylor (Director): In the jungle of evil ("Doubletake"). 1988 (based on the novel Switch ).
• William Bayer (Director): Mississippi Summer . 1971.

Novels

• Search of a hero. A novel . World Publ., Cleveland 1962.
• Stardust . Dell, New York 1974.
• Visions of Isabelle . Delacorte PRess, New York 1975, ISBN 0-440-09315-5 .
• Tangier . Dutton, New York 1978, ISBN 0-525-21410-0 .
• Punish me with kisses . Pocket Books, New York 1981, ISBN 0-671-41991-9 .
• Frank Janek cycle

1. The killer falcon. Roman ("Peregrine"). Goldmann, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-442-08938-7 .
2. Deadly swap. Novel ("Switch"). Zsolnay, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-552-03813-2 .
3. Ice-cold Angel. Roman ("Wallflower"). Goldmann, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-442-42916-1 .
4. Mirror Maze. A novel . Villard, New York 1994, ISBN 0-679-41459-2 .

• Company Dome of the Rock. Roman ("Pattern Crimes"). Blanvalet, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7645-6753-8 .
• Blind rage. Roman ("Blind side"). Goldmann, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-442-09860-2 .
• Tarot . Rivages, Paris 2001, ISBN 978-2-7436-0832-3 .
• The dream of broken horses. A novel . Pocket Books, New York 2002, ISBN 0-7434-0336-3 .
• La ville des Couteaux . Rivages, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7436-1852-0 .

Non-fiction

• Breaking through, selling out. Dropping dead & other notes on filmmaking . Macmillan, New York 1971.
• The Great Movies . Ridge PRess, London 1973, ISBN 0-600-33944-0 .

As David Hunt

• Colors of the night. Roman ("The magician's tale"). Heyne, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-453-12919-9 .
• Don't go back Roman ("Trick of Light"). Heyne, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-453-16301-X .

Web links

• Homepage of William Bayer