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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 ...
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Mar 16, 2018 · Now 71, 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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The Boy Who Ran Away to Sea. Posted on April 8, 2022. Paperback – March 29, 2022. A childhood in the 1950s and ’60s among grifters, show girls, and mob enforcers who embraced the boy and made him who he is. “These stories make for one of the most important and moving American bildungsromans of all time.”.
Nov 9, 2021 · American writer Barry Gifford in Paris, France, in 2010. 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 ...
Collected here for the first time, the Roy stories of Barry Gifford chronicle his personal history of a time—roughly, the late 1940s through the early 1960s—and a place—the southern and mid-western United States (Chicago, Illinois, and Key West and Miami, Florida, in particular).
Roy’s World Stories: 1973-2020. New paperback available for pre-order September 22, 2020. A tie-in to the new documentary, Roy’s World, directed by Rob Christopher narrated by Lili Taylor, Matt Dillon and Willem Dafoe, these stories comprise one of Barry Gifford’s most enduring works, his homage to the gritty Chicago landscape of his youth.
Barry Gifford. 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. He played baseball in high school and enrolled at the University of Missouri on an athletic scholarship, but soon left ...
