Oakley Hall

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Oakley Hall is also the name of an American folk-rock band from Brooklyn, New York.

Oakley Maxwell Hall (born July 1, 1920) is an American novelist. He was born in Mission Hills, California, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and served in the Marines during World War II.

His books focus primarily on the historical American West. His most famous book, Warlock, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1958. The film adaptation of the same title was directed by Edward Dmytryk. In Thomas Pynchon's introduction to Richard Fariña's Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, Pynchon stated that he and Fariña started a "micro-cult" around Warlock.

Another novel, The Downhill Racers was made into a film starring Robert Redford.

After the death of Wallace Stegner, Hall was considered the dean of West Coast writers, having supported the early careers of California novelists such as Michael Chabon.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Legends West series 1.2 Ambrose Bierce series 1.3 Other novels 1.4 Non-fiction 2 External links

[edit] Works

[edit] Legends West series

• Warlock (1958)
• The Bad Lands (1978)
• Apaches (1986)

[edit] Ambrose Bierce series

• Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades (1998)
• Ambrose Bierce and the Death of Kings (2001)
• Ambrose Bierce and the One-Eyed Jacks (2003)
• Ambrose Bierce and the Trey of Pearls (2004)
• Ambrose Bierce and the Ace of Shoots (2005)

[edit] Other novels

• Murder City (1949)
• So Many Doors (1950)
• Corpus of Joe Bailey (1953)
• Mardios Beach (1955)
• The Pleasure Garden (1966)
• The Downhill Racers (1968)
• A Game for Eagles (1970)
• The Adelita (1975)
• Lullaby (1982)
• The Children of the Sun (1983)
• The Coming of the Kid (1985)
• Separations (1997)

[edit] Non-fiction

• The Art and Craft of Novel Writing (1995)
• How Fiction Works (2000)

[edit] External links

• Oakley Hall from The New York Review of Books.
• Oakley Hall at the Internet Movie Database