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Barry Gifford (born October 18, 1946) is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and prose influenced by film noir and Beat Generation writers. Gifford writes nonfiction, poetry, and is best known for his series of novels about Sailor and Lula, two star-crossed protagonists on a perpetual ...
Read poems by this poet. Barry Gifford was born on October 18, 1946, in Chicago, Illinois. His family moved often and lived mostly in hotels, and he cites the characters he encountered in hotel lobbies as an early inspiration to write.
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Mar 16, 2018 · Barry Gifford has spent a lifetime writing stories about outsiders, particularly the hard-living petty thieves Sailor and Lula, the basis for the David Lynch film “Wild at Heart.”
Barry Gifford is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and prose influenced by film noir and Beat Generation writers.
Nov 9, 2021 · He is perhaps most famous for what are labeled his Sailor and Lula novels, a series that inspired filmmaker David Lynch’s “Wild At Heart,” the 1990 romantic crime film that Lynch wrote and directed...
Barry Gifford has been writing the story of America in acclaimed novel after acclaimed novel for the last half-century. At the same time, he’s been writing short stories, his “Roy stories,” that show America from a different vantage point, a certain mix of innocence and worldliness.
Barry Gifford is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and film noir- and Beat Generation-influenced literary madness.
