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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.
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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.”
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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.
He is the author of over a dozen books of poetry, including Imagining Paradise: New and Selected Poems (Seven Stories Press, 2012), Ghosts No Horse Can Carry: Collected Poems 1967–1987 (Creative Arts Book Company, 1989), and The Boy You Have Always Loved (Talon Books, 1976).
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.
Nov 9, 2021 · One name that rarely appears on such lists is that of Barry Gifford, a writer who is very tied to this city of his birth and formative years.
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.
