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  1. Barry Gifford (born October 18, 1946) [1] is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and prose influenced by film noir and Beat Generation writers.

  2. Nov 9, 2021 · He went to grammar school, played a lot of sports and began to discover life and its many characters and revelations, and girls. His father died of cancer when Roy was a teenager and soon the kid...

  3. Oct 22, 2021 · As an excavation of a place, time and a personal history, Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago deconstructs Chicago poet and novelist Barry Gifford in an original movie portrait of the artist as a young man, told in a variety of forms, against a backdrop of the rough-hewn Windy City milieu of his earliest years.

  4. Mar 16, 2018 · Barry Gifford has spent a lifetime writing stories about outsiders, particularly the hard-living petty thieves Sailor and Lula, the basis for the David Lynch film “Wild at Heart.”

  5. Barry Gifford’s Sad Stories of the Death of Kings gleams like a stolen silver dollar; one boy’s search for wisdom among the hustlers, criminals, and wise guys that reads as evocatively as anything out of Nelson Algren.

  6. Apr 18, 2012 · Barry Gifford (born October 18, 1946) is an American author, poet, and screenwriter known for his distinctive mix of American landscapes and film noir- and Beat Generation-influenced literary...

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  8. Jun 28, 2021 · I recently spoke with Gifford about the history and legacy of Black Lizard, as well as his deep personal connection to noir and crime fiction. Zach Vasquez: How did Black Lizard get started?

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