Clancy Carlile

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Clancy Carlile
BornClarence Lawson Carlile
January 18, 1930
Oklahoma, United States
DiedJune 4, 1998(1998-06-04) (aged 68)
Austin, Texas
OccupationAuthor
NationalityAmerican
GenreNovels, screenplay
ChildrenSteven

Clancy Carlile (January 18, 1930 – June 4, 1998)[1] was an American novelist and screenwriter of Cherokee descent. He is perhaps best known for his 1980 novel Honkytonk Man, made into a film by Clint Eastwood.

Early years

Carlile was born in the

tribal jurisdictional area in Oklahoma, and his father was Cherokee. He had an "erratic childhood,"[2] and he moved to Texas at a young age. Carlile was a high school drop-out.[3] He worked as a cotton picker until his family moved to California to pick fruit. He served in the army during the Korean War and after being discharged, obtained a master's degree at San Francisco State University.[4]

Career

Carlile began writing in the early 1960s,

African American and Cherokee descent who helps African American homesteaders settle the territory under the specter of white people. The Paris Pilgrims was published posthumously in 1999. The Paris Pilgrims combines "memoirs, biographies and fiction"[6] with Carlile's imagination to present a "quasifictional account" of famous US expatriates in 1920s Paris.[3][7] The Paris Pilgrims features US writer Ernest Hemingway, as well as many other public figures, "which includes everyone from Ezra Pound to Sylvia Beach to Lincoln Steffens to Picasso, Braque, Gide and Cole Porter."[6]

Carlile was also a songwriter, musician, and producer who played guitar and sang, including with members of Grateful Dead.[8] He is credited for the music and lyrics of a song "I'm a Lovin' Man"; its 1970 recording features Carlile and possibly vocals from Bob Weir.[8] Carlile also provides vocals on the 1972 song called "Crash and Depression," from an LP called The Nation in Prosperity and Poverty, as well as vocals, writing, and arrangement for the 1972 LP called Settling the West.[9]

Personal life

Carlile spent much of his later life in

University of Texas.[3] Carlile had a son named Steven and four grandchildren.[4] He died in Austin from cancer at the age of 68 on June 4, 1998.[4]

References

  1. ^ Pimsleur, J.L. (June 25, 1998). "Books In Brief". The San Francisco Chronicle.
  2. ^ a b Folkart, Burt A. (June 12, 2010). "Clancy Carlile; 'Honkytonk Man' Author". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 10, 2010.
  3. ^ a b c Pimsleur, J.L. (June 25, 1998). "Obituary Clancy Carlile". SFgate. Retrieved December 14, 2010.
  4. ^ a b c d "Clancy Carlile, 68, Author and Screenwriter". The New York Times. June 29, 1998. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
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  6. ^ a b Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher (July 7, 1999). "BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Fleshing Out Hemingway With Literary License". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
  7. ^ "The Paris Pilgrims by Clancy Carlile, Author, Clancy Carlisle, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $25 (496p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0615-0". PublishersWeekly.com. Archived from the original on 2021-11-30. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
  8. ^ a b "Grateful Dead Lyric And Song Finder". whitegum.com. Retrieved 2021-11-30.
  9. ^ "Clancy Carlile". Discogs. Retrieved 2021-11-30.