LITERARY CULT FIGURE, BARRY GIFFORD, CREATOR OF WILD AT HEART
TO BE GUEST OF HONOR AT MEET THE AUTHOR EVENT, SUNDAY MAY 9

Barry Gifford’s fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have been published in 28 languages. His novel Night People was awarded the Premio Brancati in Italy, and 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 books Sailor’s Holiday and The Phantom Father were each named Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times, and his book Wyoming was named a Novel of the Year by the Los Angeles Times. Gifford’s work has appeared in many publications, including the New Yorker, Punch, Esquire, La Nouvelle Revue Française, El Pais, La Repubblica, El Universal, Film Comment, Projections, and the New York Times. His film credits in addition to Wild at Heart and Perdita Durango, include Lost Highway, City of Ghosts, and The Phantom Father. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information, visit www.BarryGifford.com.

Some commentaries on Gifford's work include:

I saw Sailor and Lula in love in the middle of a crazy, violent, wild world, and I wanted to go on that trip with them. . . . It’s like looking into the Garden of Eden before things went bad.
—Film Director David Lynch

A dark and comic ride through a fantasy America that rings desperately true.
—New York Times Book Review

Gifford sketches marvelous characters as deftly as William Faulkner and animates them in scene after scene of hilarious dialogue. . . . Barry Gifford continues to be one of America’s most original writers.
—Playboy