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   Barry Gifford (born October 18, 1946) [1] 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 ...

2. www.latimes.com › books › la-ca-jc-barry-giffordBarry Gifford's lifetime of outsiders - Los Angeles Times

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   Mar 16, 2018 · The 71-year-old, Chicago-born writer was drawn to the Beats because Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs were educated people who celebrated their influences. “They’d had this academic...

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   Did Barry Gifford write a screenplay?

   • Gifford went on to write the screenplay for Lost Highway with Lynch. Much of Gifford's work is nonfiction. 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.

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   Where did Barry Gifford grow up?

   • Gifford's father was in organized crime, and he spent his childhood largely in Chicago and New Orleans living in hotels. His childhood, as recounted in his long-running series of autobiographical tales known collectively as the Roy stories, is explored in the 2020 documentary Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago.

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   What does Barry Gifford say in his new poetry collection?

   • The first words in Barry Gifford’s new poetry collection say it all—“Here I am wasting time again / writing poems to keep myself company”—doing what he has ever done, surprising his readers in kaleidoscopic prisms of color, turning every breath into a story, and himself into his most colorful character. past the cottage and into the big house.

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   What are some quotes by Barry Gifford?

   • More books by Barry Gifford… Quotes by Barry Gifford (?) “The world is really wild at heart and weird on top.” “In the picture, Ava Gardner's tousled black hair obscured her right eye, and her full, closed lips were pulled slightly to the right, resulting in something less than a smile.

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   Barry Gifford. 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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   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.

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   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.

8. www.chicagotribune.com › 2021/11/09 › writer-barryWriter Barry Gifford, who inspired David Lynch’s ‘Wild at ...

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   Nov 9, 2021 · Gifford was born and grew up in the Seneca Hotel in Streeterville. His name was Barry Stein and his mother was a former Texas beauty queen, his father a pharmacist who ran a drugstore at the...

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    Born. in Chicago, Illinois, The United States. October 18, 1946. Website. http://barrygifford.com/ Genre. Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Nonfiction. Influences. Jack London, B. Traven, Jack Kerouac, Pound, Emily Dickinson, Jean Rhy. ...more. edit data.