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BARRY GIFFORD is the author of more than forty published works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages. Gifford began his career as a poet and musician. He has been the recipient of awards from PEN, The National Endowment for the Arts, the American Library Association, The Writers Guild of America, and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. His novel Wild at Heart: The Story of Sailor and Luna was made into a Major Motion Picture which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. His most recent prose works are The Roy Stories, Landscape With Traveler: The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves, and Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac. His most recent poetry collection is Imagining Paradise: New and Selected Poems (2012). Gifford lives in the San Francisco Bay area. |
