William Kotzwinkle

William Kotzwinkle (born 1938^[1] or 1943^[2]) is an American novelist, children's writer, and screenwriter. He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. 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. Kotzwinkle wrote the novelization of the screenplay for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

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) (later re-titled as Book of Love at the release of the movie based on it)
Christmas at Fontaine's (1982)
Superman III (1983) (film novelization)
Great World Circus (1983)
Queen of Swords (1983)
Seduction in Berlin (1985)
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)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) (original story, for the film)
Book of Love (1990) (adapted from his novel Jack in the Box, for the film)

Walter the Farting Dog series (with Glenn Murray)(illustrations by Audrey Colman)

Walter the Farting Dog (2001) ISBN 1-583-94053-7
Walter the Farting Dog: Trouble at the Yard Sale (2004) ISBN 0-525-47217-7 (this book has also been released as Walter the Farting Dog Farts Again)
Rough Weather Ahead for Walter the Farting Dog (2005) ISBN 0-525-47218-5
Walter the Farting Dog goes on a Cruise (2006) ISBN 0-525-47714-4
Walter The Farting Dog: Banned From the Beach (June 21, 2007) ISBN 0-525-47812-4 (co-written with Elizabeth Gundy)
Walter, Canis Inflatus (2004) ISBN 1-583-94110-X

^ Eyer, Jim (c 2008). "William Kotzwinkle". The Children's Literature Research Collections, Elmer L. Andersen Library, University of Minnesota. http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/CLRC-689.xml. Retrieved June 30, 2010.
^ "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Teacher's Notes". Penguin Active Reading, Teacher Support Program, Pearson Education Limited. c2009. http://www.penguinreaders.com/pdf/downloads/par/level2/TN-ExtraTerrestrial.pdf. Retrieved June 30, 2010.

Eccentric Individuality in William Kotzwinkle's "The Fan Man", "E.T.", "Doctor Rat" and Other Works of Fiction and Fantasy, Leon Lewis (2002)
biography at fantastic fiction website
Interview with Kotzwinkle
William Kotzwinkle at the Internet Movie Database
William Kotzwinkle at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

World Fantasy Award for Best Novel

1975–1979	The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip (1975) Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson (1976) Doctor Rat by William Kotzwinkle (1977) Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber (1978) Gloriana by Michael Moorcock (1979)

1980–1989	Watchtower by Elizabeth A. Lynn (1980) The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe (1981) Little, Big by John Crowley (1982) Nifft the Lean by Michael Shea (1983) The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford (1984) Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock (1985, tie) Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart (1985, tie) Song of Kali by Dan Simmons (1986) Perfume by Patrick Suskind (1987) Replay by Ken Grimwood (1988) Koko by Peter Straub (1989)

Complete list thru 1989 1990–1999 2000–2009 2010–present

Persondata
Name	Kotzwinkle, William
Alternative names
Short description	Novelist, short story writer, children's writer, screenwriter
Date of birth	1938
Place of birth	Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of death
Place of death