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Education
  
Yale School of Drama

Role
  
Novelist


Name
  
William Hjortsberg

Genre
  
Mystery, screenwriting

Movies
  
Angel Heart, Legend

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Nominations
  
Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author

Books
  
Falling Angel, Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life a, Never, Gray Matters, Manana: A Novel

Similar People
  
Alan Parker, Ridley Scott, Robin Klein, Terry Rawlings, Arnon Milchan

Occupation
  
Novelist, screenwriter

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William "Gatz" Hjortsberg (February 23, 1941 – April 22, 2017) was an American novelist and screenwriter known for writing the screenplay of the film Legend.

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His novel Falling Angel was the basis for the film Angel Heart (1987).

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Novels

  • Alp (1969)
  • Gray Matters (1971)
  • Symbiography (1973)
  • Toro! Toro! Toro! (1974)
  • Falling Angel (1978)
  • Tales & Fables (1985)
  • Nevermore (1994)
  • Mañana (2015)

    • Screenplays

  • Thunder and Lightning (1977)
  • The Georgia Peaches (1980) (TV)
  • Legend (1985)
  • Angel Heart (1987) based on his novel, screenplay written by Alan Parker.

    • Nonfiction

  • Hjortsberg, William (2012). Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan. Counterpoint Press. ISBN 9781582437903.  A biography of writer Richard Brautigan.

    • References

    William Hjortsberg Wikipedia
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