Barry Gifford

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Barry Gifford
Gifford in 2006
Gifford in 2006
Born (1946-10-18) October 18, 1946 (age 77)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
NationalityAmerican

Barry Gifford (born October 18, 1946)

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

Alex de la Iglesia with a script co-written by Gifford. His most recent book, Black Sun Rising / La Corazonado, published by Seven Stories Press in 2020, is a Western noir novella that traces the struggle of the first integrated Native American tribe to establish itself in North America.[3]

Life and career

Gifford was born in a Chicago hotel room in 1946.

Air Force Reserves. After a short stint pursuing a possible career in baseball,[6]
Gifford focused on writing, both as a journalist and a poet. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Gifford's fourth novel, Wild at Heart: The Story of Sailor and Lula, caught the eye of director David Lynch, who adapted it into the screenplay and movie Wild at Heart. The movie won the Palme d'Or, the highest honor, at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990. The film's success boosted interest in Gifford's novels.

Bibliography

Poetry

  • The Blood of the Parade (1967)
  • Coyote Tantras (1973)
  • Persimmons: Poems for Paintings (1976)
  • The Boy You Have Always Loved (1976)
  • A Quinzaine in Return for a Portrait of Mary Sun (1977)
  • Lives of the French Impressionist Painters (1978)
  • Horse Hauling Timber out of Hokkaido Forest (1979)
  • Beautiful Phantoms: Selected Poems 1968–1980 (1981)
  • Giotto's Circle (1987)
  • Ghosts No Horse Can Carry: Collected Poems 1967–1987 (1989)
  • Flaubert at Key West (1994)
  • Replies to Wang Wei
  • Imagining Paradise: New and Selected Poems (2012)
  • New York, 1960 (2016)

Essays and short stories

  • A Boy's Novel (1973)
  • Kerouac's Town: On the Second Anniversary of His Death. photographs by Marshall Clements.
    ISBN 978-0-912264-77-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)[7]
  • Francis Goes to the Seashore (1982)
  • The Devil Thumbs a Ride and Other Unforgettable Films (1988)
  • New Mysteries of Paris (1991)
  • Night People (1992)
  • American Falls: The Collected Short Stories
  • Do the Blind Dream? (2005)
  • The Roy Stories (2013)
  • The Cuban Club (2017)
  • Roy's World (2020)

Non-fiction

  • Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac, with Lawrence Lee (1978)
  • Saroyan: A Biography, with Lawrence Lee (1984)
  • Day at the Races: The Education of a Racetracker
  • The Devil Thumbs a Ride & Other Unforgettable Films
  • The Neighborhood of Baseball: A Personal History of the Chicago Cubs
  • Really the Blues (introduction)
  • The Phantom Father: A Memoir
  • Out of the Past: Adventures in Film Noir

Novels and novellas

  • Landscape With Traveler: The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves (1980)
  • Port Tropique (1980)
  • Unfortunate Woman (1983)
  • Wild at Heart: The Story of Sailor and Lula (1990) – Part 1 in the Sailor and Lula series
  • Sailor's Holiday: The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula (1991) – Part 2 in the Sailor and Lula series
  • 59° and Raining: The Story of Perdita Durango (1992) – Part 3 in the Sailor and Lula series
  • A Good Man to Know: A Semi-Documentary Fictional Memoir (1992)
  • Arise and Walk (1995)
  • Baby Cat-Face (1995) – Sailor and Lula make a brief appearance
  • Sultans of Africa – Part 4 in the Sailor and Lula series
  • Consuelo's Kiss – Part 5 in the Sailor and Lula series
  • The Sinaloa Story (1998)
  • Wyoming (2000)
  • Bad Day for the Leopard Man – Part 6 in the Sailor and Lula series
  • The Stars Above Veracruz (2006)
  • Imagination of the Heart (2007) – Part 7 in the Sailor and Lula series
  • Memories from a Sinking Ship (2007) - Winner of the 2007 Christopher Isherwood Foundation Award for Fiction
  • Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels (2010)
  • Sad Stories of the Death of Kings (2010)
  • The Up-Down (2015) - A coda to the Sailor and Lula stories, documenting the last 25 years in the life of their adult son, Pace Roscoe Ripley
  • Sailor & Lula, Expanded Edition (2019)
  • Black Sun Rising / La Corazonado (2020)

Graphic novels

  • Perdita Durango (1995)

Other works

  • Read 'em and Weep
  • Back in America
  • Bordertown (2002)
  • My Last Martini
  • The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room: A Barry Gifford Reader
  • Rosa Blanca
  • Hotel Room Trilogy
  • Immortality (co-writer)

Filmography

References

  1. ^ a b "Guide to the Barry Gifford Papers, ca. 1970 -1997 [at Stanford University]" (PDF). Online Archive of California (OAC). c. 1998. Retrieved June 7, 2010.
  2. ^ Andrei Codrescu, forward to The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room: The Barry Gifford Reader; edited by Thomas A. McCarthy; NY: Seven Stories Press (2003), p xi
  3. ^ Gifford, Barry. "Black Sun Rising / La Corazonado". Seven Stories Press. Seven Stories Press. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  4. ^ Elgrably, Jordan (Winter 1995). "The Dream Factory: Oliver Stone and Barry Gifford Converse on the Production of Art in a Mass Market Culture". Matador. Archived from the original on 21 September 2004. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  5. ^ "The religion of director Oliver Stone". Archived from the original on December 2, 2010. Retrieved September 30, 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  6. ^ "Barry Gifford's Long Road With Sailor & Lula". chicagoist.com. Archived from the original on 7 August 2016. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  7. ^ "Kerouac's Town The Signed, Numbered, Limited Edition by Barry Gifford, Jack Kerouac". Third Mind Books. Retrieved 23 April 2023.

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