William Eastlake
William Eastlake (1917–1997) was an American writer. His Checkerboard Trilogy consists of the works Go in Beauty (1956), The Bronc People (1958), and Portrait of an Artist with Twenty-Six Horses (1963). The literary critic Larry McCaffery included the Checkerboard Trilogy in his list of the 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction.[1]
Eastlake's book, Castle Keep was made into the 1969 movie, Castle Keep, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Burt Lancaster, Patrick O'Neal, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Bruce Dern, and Peter Falk.
Works
- Go in Beauty (1956)
- Bronc People (1958)
- Portrait of an Artist with Twenty-Six Horses (1963)
- Castle Keep (1965)
- The Bamboo Bed (1969)
- Dancers in the Scalp House (1975)
- The Long, Naked Descent into Boston (1977)
- A Child's Garden of Verses for the Revolution (1970)
- Jack Armstrong in Tangier (1984)
References
- ↑ McCaffery, Larry McCaffery. "The 20th Century’s Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction". Spineless Books. Retrieved 6 June 2012.