Gustav Hasford

Gustav Hasford ( born November 28, 1947 in Russellville, Alabama; † 29 January 1993 at Aegina, Greece ) joined the Marines in 1967 and served as Kriegsberichtserstatter in the Vietnam War. His semi-autobiographical novel The Short - Timers ( German title: Hellfire ) was later made ​​into a film by Stanley Kubrick as Full Metal Jacket. The screenplay of the film, nominated for an Oscar, was written by director Stanley Kubrick, author Michael Herr and Hasford himself, although the extent of its contribution to the script gave rise to disputes between the three parties; as a result, Hasford decided not to appear at the Oscar ceremony.

Hasford worked in the 1970s with various science fiction authors together (including Arthur Byron Cover and David J. Skal ), published in magazines and anthologies such as Space and Time and Damon Knights orbit and split times with author Harlan Ellison an apartment. 1988 Hasford was arrested in San Luis Obispo on the grounds that he had stolen a variety of books from several American libraries. Hasford, however, claimed to have these works only for research purposes for a book about the American Civil War (which incidentally never appeared ) borrowed. He was sentenced to six months in prison, of which he served three months and promised to pay for any damage caused from income of his next book. This appeared as a sequel to The Short Timers in 1990 under the title The Phantom Blooper.

Hasfords last book, a gambling in Los Angeles detective novel entitled A Gypsy good time, appeared to little notice in 1992., Who suffers from diabetes writer moved then to the island of Aegina off the coast of Greece, where he at on 29 January 1993 heart failure died.

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• Template: Internet resource / maintenance / access date not in ISO format template: Internet resource / Maintenance / date not in ISO format Jason Sanford: Reviving Gustav Hasford. October 6, 2006, accessed on 9 October 2010 (English ).