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Barry Gifford (born October 18, 1946) is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and prose influenced by film noir and Beat Generation writers. Gifford writes nonfiction, poetry, and is best known for his series of novels about Sailor and Lula, two star-crossed protagonists on a perpetual ...
Barry Gifford | Official website of Barry Gifford, author, novelist, playwright, poet. Upcoming Appearance: May 4, 2023, Canessa Gallery, SF. Posted on April 29, 2023. “The way Barry Gifford lets people talk articulates everything about their unfamiliar inner lives, and ours.” The Boston Globe.
Barry Gifford is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and film noir- and Beat Generation-influenced literary madness.
Barry Gifford, author of the novels Wild at Heart, Night People, Perdita Durango and, most recently, Wyoming, presents us with a collection of gems, poems mostly in the Chinese manner, fashioned as a response to the work of the great poet of the T’ang dynasty, Wang Wei.
Barry Gifford’s World; The Boy Who Ran Away to Sea; How Chet Baker Died: Poems; Upcoming screenings: Roy’s World; Archives. April 2023; April 2022; September 2020; August 2020; June 2020; February 2020; November 2018; December 2017; May 2017
Mar 16, 2018 · Barry Gifford has spent a lifetime writing stories about outsiders, particularly the hard-living petty thieves Sailor and Lula, the basis for the David Lynch film “Wild at Heart.”. We sit down...
Nov 8, 2021 · Barry Gifford is the acclaimed author perhaps best known to movie buffs for writing the book Wild at Heart that David Lynch adapted into 1990’s Palme d’Or winner of the same name, starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern as fiercely devoted lovers Sailor and Lula.
