Barry Gifford

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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 film noir- and Beat Generation-influenced literary madness.

He is described by Patrick Beach as being "like if John Updike had an evil twin that grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and wrote funny..."^[1]He is best known for his series of novels about Sailor and Lula, two sex-driven, star-crossed protagonists on the road. The first of the series, Wild at Heart, was adapted by director David Lynch for the 1990 film of the same title. Gifford went on to write the screenplay for Lost Highway with Lynch. Much of Gifford's work is nonfiction.

1 Selected works
2 References
3 External links

[edit] Selected works

[edit] The Sailor & Lula Series

Wild at Heart (1990)
Perdita Durango
Sailor's Holiday
Sultan's of Africa
Consuelo's Kiss
Bad Day for the Leopard Man

[edit] Other works

Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac (with Lawrence Lee)
Saroyan: A Biography
Out of the Past: Adventures in Film Noir
The Sinaloa Story (1998)
American Falls: The Collected Short Stories
Do the Blind Dream?
The Phantom Father
Replies to Wang Wei
Wyoming
The Stars Above Veracruz
Read 'em and Weep
Back in America
Bordertown
Flaubert at Key West
Ghosts No Horse Can Carry
Hotel Room Trilogy
Landscape with Traveler
My Last Martini
Night People
Port Tropique
The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room: A Barry Gifford Reader
The Neighborhood of Baseball: A Personal History of the Chicago Cubs

[edit] Film and television

Wild at Heart (novel only) (1990)
Hotel Room (screenplay, episodes "Blackout" and "Tricks") (1993)
Lost Highway (screenplay, with David Lynch) (1997)
Perdita Durango (screenplay, with David Trueba, Álex de la Iglesia, and Jorge Guerricaechevarría) (1997)