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Clancy Carlile (January 18, 1930 – June 4, 1998) 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.
Clancy Carlile. Writer: Honkytonk Man. His father was half Cherokee, and he was born on a Choctaw Indian reservation. He worked in Texas picking cotton until his sharecropper family moved to California to pick fruit. He began writing while in the Army during the Korean War and later received a Master's degree from San Francisco State University.
Jun 12, 1998 · Clancy Carlile, the half-Cherokee drifter and admitted enfant terrible who survived an erratic childhood to write a series of successful novels, including “The Honkytonk Man,” which was made...
Clancy Carlile. Writer: Honkytonk Man. His father was half Cherokee, and he was born on a Choctaw Indian reservation. He worked in Texas picking cotton until his sharecropper family moved to California to pick fruit. He began writing while in the Army during the Korean War and later received a Master's degree from San Francisco State University.
Jun 29, 1998 · Clancy Carlile, a novelist and screenwriter, died on June 4 at South Austin Hospital in Austin, Tex. He was 68 and lived in Austin. He had cancer, said Leonard Gardner, a...
Clancy Carlile is the author of Children of the Dust (4.04 avg rating, 118 ratings, 12 reviews, published 1995), The Paris Pilgrims (3.54 avg rating, 63 ...
Jun 25, 1998 · Clancy Carlile, a high school dropout who went from Dust Bowl sharecropper to award-winning author, died June 4 of cancer in an Austin, Texas, hospital at the age of 68. He was in Austin on a...
