| Bari Wood | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | author |
| Nationality | United States |
| Genres | Suspense Science fiction Horror |
Bari Wood (b. Dec. 31, 1946) is an American author of science fiction, crime and horror novels.
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Bari E. Wood was born in Jacksonville, Illinois in 1946, grew up in and around Chicago, and graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois with a degree in English. She moved to New York in 1967, where she first worked in the library of the American Cancer Society, later as editor of the society's publication, CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians[1] and of the medical journal Drug Therapy. In the early 1970s she began writing fiction.
She was married to Dr. Gilbert Congdon Wood (1915-2000), a biologist for the American Cancer Society. In 1981 they moved to a farmhouse in Ridgefield, Connecticut.[2] In 2008, she married Dennis Preston Kazee and moved to Lansing, Michigan.
Bari Wood wrote her first novel, Killing Gift, in 1975. Followed by 'Twins,' with Jack Geasland in 1977; in 1988 the novel was adapted into a film under the title Dead Ringers with Jeremy Irons in the lead role. The novel The Killing Gift, published in 1975, won the Putnam Prize for high-quality novels.[3]
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Twins | with Jack Geasland (Re-released in 1977 as Dead Ringers) |
| 1975 | The Killing Gift | |
| 1981 | The Tribe | |
| 1984 | Lightsource | |
| 1986 | Amy Girl | |
| 1993 | Doll's Eyes | |
| 1995 | The Basement |
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Dead Ringers | Directed by David Cronenberg. Based on Twins aka Dead Ringers.[1] |
| 1999 | In Dreams | Directed by Neil Jordan. Based on Doll's Eyes [2] |