William Kotzwinkle

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William Kotzwinkle (1943-) is an author and screenwriter. His most popular works to date include the novelization of E.T. the Extra Terrestrial (on which he collaborated with Melissa Mathison, the original screenplay writer, this book contains details behind the story of E.T. not shown in the film) and The Bear Went Over the Mountain.

He has won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel for Doctor Rat in 1977, and has also won the National Magazine award for fiction. The most comprehensive critical study of Kotzwinkle's works is Leon Lewis' "Eccentric Individuality in William Kotzwinkle's "The Fan Man", "E.T.", "Doctor Rat" and Other Works of Fiction and Fantasy" (2002).

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[edit] Series

E.T. the Extra Terrestrial

  • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) (with Melissa Mathison)
  • E.T. the Book of the Green Planet (1985)

Walter the Farting Dog (with Glenn Murray)

  • Walter the Farting Dog (2001)
  • Trouble at the Yard Sale (2004)
  • Walter the Farting Dog goes on a Cruise

Walter the Farting Dog (Latin)

  • Walter, Canis Inflatus (2004)

[edit] Novels

  • The Firemen (1969)
  • Elephant Boy: A Story of the Stone Age (1970)
  • The Day the Gang Got Rich (1970)
  • The Ship That Came Down The Gutter (1970)
  • The Return of Crazy Horse (1971)
  • Hermes 3000 (1972)
  • The Supreme, Superb, Exalted and Delightful, One and Only Magic Building (1973)
  • The Fan Man (1974)
  • Night Book (1974)
  • Up the Alley with Jack and Joe (1974)
  • Swimmer in the Secret Sea (1975)
  • Doctor Rat (1976)
  • The Leopard's Tooth (1976)
  • Fata Morgana (1977)
  • The Ants Who Took Away Time (1978)
  • Herr Nightingale And the Satin Woman (1978)
  • Dream of Dark Harbor: A Ghostly Sea Story (1979)
  • The Nap Master (1979)
  • Jack in the Box (1980) (eventually re-titled as Book of Love to coincide with the movie)
  • Christmas at Fontaine's (1982)
  • Superman III (1983)
  • Great World Circus (1983)
  • Queen of Swords (1983)
  • Seduction in Berlin (1985)
  • Jewel of the Moon (1985)
  • The World Is Big and I'm So Small (1986)
  • The Exile (1987)
  • The Midnight Examiner (1989)
  • The Game of Thirty (1994)
  • The Million-Dollar Bear (1995)
  • The Bear Went Over the Mountain (1996)
  • The Amphora Project (2005)
  • Rough Weather Ahead for Walter the Farting Dog (2006)

[edit] Collections

  • Elephant Bangs Train (1971)
  • The Oldest Man: And Other Timeless Stories (1971)
  • Trouble in Bugland: A Collection of Inspector Mantis Mysteries (1983)
  • Hearts of Wood: And Other Timeless Tales (1986)
  • The Hot Jazz Trio (1989)
  • Tales from the Empty Notebook (1995)

[edit] Anthologies containing stories by William Kotzwinkle

  • The Year's Best Fantasy Second Annual Collection (aka Demons and Dreams) (1989)

[edit] Short stories

  • The Curio Shop (1980)
  • Fragments of Papyrus from the Temple of the Older Gods (1988)
  • Blues on the Nile: A Fragment of Papyrus (1989)
  • Boxcar Blues (1989)
  • Django Reinhardt Played the Blues (1989)
  • Horse Badorties Goes Out (1973)

[edit] References and External links

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