Barry Gifford
Barry Gifford ( born October 18, 1946 in Chicago) is an American author and screenwriter. He achieved fame primarily for his novel series Sailor and Lula. The first part was in 1990 under the title Wild at Heart - The Story of Sailor and Lula by David Lynch filmed.
Life
Gifford was born the son of a Jew and a Catholic Irish in Chicago. After college, he joined the Air Force Reserves. Gifford decided on a writing career, after he had flirted for a time with a career in baseball.
It was followed by numerous novels, collections of poetry and short stories as well as property and screenplays.
Works
Prose works
- A Boy's Novel ( 1973)
- Landscape With Traveler: The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves (1980 )
- Port Tropique (1980 )
- Francis Goes to the Seashore (1982 )
- Unfortunate Woman ( 1983)
- Wild at Heart: The Story of Sailor and Lula (1990 ) - Part 1 in the Sailor and Lula series (Eng. The Saga of Sailor and Lula Goldmann, 1991 ISBN 978-3-442-41095-8. . )
- New Mysteries of Paris ( 1991)
- 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
- Night People (1992 )
- A Good Man to Know: A Semi- Documentary Fictional Memoir (1992 )
- Arise and Walk (1995 )
- Baby Cat - Face ( 1995) - Sailor and Lula make a postage 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
- Do the Blind Dream? (2005)
- The Stars Above Vera Cruz ( 2006)
- Imagination of the Heart ( 2007) - Part 7 in the Sailor and Lula series
- Memories from a Sinking Ship (2007)
- Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels ( 2010)
- Sad Stories of the Death of Kings (2010)
Volumes of poetry
- The Blood of the Parade (1967 )
- Coyote Tantras (1973 )
- Persimmons: Poems for Paintings (1976 )
- The Boy You Have Always Loved (1976 )
- A Fortnight in return for a Portrait of Mary Sun (1977 )
- Lives of the French Impressionist Painter (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 )
- Replies to Wang Wei
- Imagining Paradise: New and Selected Poems (2012 )