Darryl Ponicsan

Darryl Ponicsan
Ponicsan in 2008
Born	May 26, 1938 (1938-05-26) (age 85) Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Pen name	Anne Argula[1]
Occupation	Author, screenwriter
Language	English
Alma mater	Muhlenberg College (AB) Cornell University (MA)

Darryl Ponicsan (

Ponicsan was born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, the son of Anne (née Kuleck) and Frank G. Ponicsan, a merchant.^[2] He attended Muhlenberg College, (A.B., 1959) and Cornell University, (M.A., 1965).

He was a high school English teacher in

Ponicsan also wrote the screenplays for the CBS movie A Girl Called Hatter Fox (1977), the movies Nuts (1987), School Ties (1992), the HBO movie The Enemy Within (1992), and the CBS series The Mississippi (1983). He has worked frequently with producer-director Harold Becker, penning scripts for Taps (1981), Vision Quest (1985), and The Boost (1988).

Bibliography

• The Last Detail (New York: Dial Press, 1970)
• Goldengrove (New York: Dial Press, 1971)
• Andoshen, Pa. (New York: Dial Press, 1973)
• Cinderella Liberty (New York: Harper and Row, 1973)
• Tom Mix Died for Your Sins (New York: Delacorte Press 1975)
• The Accomplice (New York: Harper and Row, 1975)
• The Ringmaster (New York: Delacorte Press, 1978)
• An Unmarried Man (New York: Delacorte Press 1980)
• Last Flag Flying (New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2005)
• Homicide My Own (as Anne Argula) (New York: Pleasure Boat Studio, 2005)^[1]
• Walla Walla Suite: A Room with No View (as Anne Argula) (New York: Ballantine, 2007)
• Krapp's Last Cassette (as Anne Argula) (Ballantine, 2009) [cf. Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett]
• The Last Romanian (as Anne Argula) (New York: Pleasure Boat Studio, 2012)
• Eternal Sojourners (New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2019)
• I Feel Bad About My Dick: Lamentations of Masculine Vanity and Lists of Startling Pertinence (Seattle: Pleasure Boat Studio, 2020)

Filmography

• The Last Detail (1973) (novel)
• Cinderella Liberty (1973) (novel and screenwriter)
• The Girl Called Hatter Fox (1977) (TV)
• Taps (with Robert Mark Kamen and James Lineberger) (1981)
• The Mississippi (1982) (TV)
• Vision Quest (1985)
• Nuts (with Alvin Sargent and Tom Topor) (1987)
• The Boost (1988)
• School Ties (with Dick Wolf) (1992)
• Ron Bass
  ) (1994) (TV)
• Random Hearts (with Kurt Luedtke) (1999)
• Last Flag Flying (2017) (novel and screenwriter)

References

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1. ^ ^{a b} "Homicide My Own". Pleasure Boat Studios. Archived from the original on 2007-06-23.
2. ^ "Darryl Ponicsan Biography (1942-)". Filmreference.com. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
3. ^ The Last Detail Ponicsán, Darryl Hachette UK, 28 Sep. 2017

• Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2002. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000079050.