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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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Louis Bennison was born on October 17, 1884 in Oakland, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Sandy Burke of the U-Bar-U (1919), The Road Called Straight (1919) and A Misfit Earl (1919). He was married to Frances P. Bennison. He died on June 9, 1929 in New York City, New York, USA.
Nov 8, 2021 · “Picasso said that ‘art is a lie that helps us see the truth,’ and Barry’s stories function in the same way about Chicago in the 1950s,” director Rob Christopher told me during our 2019 conversation about his extraordinary film, “Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago.” “He uses his memories to create fictionalized versions of that time period.
Mar 16, 2018 · Even before his father’s death from an illness when Gifford was 12, he had a peripatetic existence. “I was born in a hotel, lived in hotels all through my early life. And so my mother and my ...
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 ...
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.”.
Gifford served as a consultant to the film adaptation of Wild at Heart: The Story of Sailor and Lula by director David Lynch, Goldwyn, 1990; Bob Callahan did script adaptation and Scott Gillis provided art for Barry Gifford's Perdita Durango, Avon (New York, NY), 1995.
