William Hjortsberg
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William Hjortsberg | |
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Born | New York City, New York, United States |
February 23, 1941
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Livingston, Montana |
Occupation | Novelist, screenwriter |
Genre | Mystery, screenwriting |
Website | |
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William Reinhold "Gatz" Hjortsberg[1][2] (February 23, 1941 – April 22, 2017[3][4]) was an American novelist and screenwriter, who wrote the screenplay of the film Legend.[2][5]
His novel Falling Angel was the basis for the film Angel Heart (1987).[6] The novel was adapted into an opera in 2015, composed by J. Mark Scearce with a libretto by Lucy Thurber.[4][7][8]
Personal life
Hjortsberg was the only child of a Swedish restaurateur father and a Swiss mother. He attended Dartmouth College, the Yale School of Drama (where he met Thomas McGuane), and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He was married three times, and had a son and a daughter.[2][3] He died of pancreatic cancer.[2]
Novels
- Alp (1969)
- Gray Matters (1971)
- Symbiography (1973)
- Toro! Toro! Toro! (1974)
- Falling Angel (1978)
- Tales & Fables (1985), published by Sylvester & Orphanos
- Nevermore (1994)
- Mañana (2015), a thriller set in Mexico.[9]
- Angel's Inferno (2020)
Screenplays
- Thunder and Lightning (1977)
- The Georgia Peaches (1980) (TV)
- Legend (1985)
Nonfiction
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References
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External links
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- 20th-century American novelists
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- American people of Swedish descent
- Writers from New York City
- 20th-century American male writers
- Novelists from New York (state)
- Screenwriters from New York (state)
- Deaths from pancreatic cancer
- Deaths from cancer in Montana
- American screenwriter stubs, 1940s birth stubs