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Barry Gifford


(Barry Colby Gifford)
USA flag (b.1946)

The author of more than forty published works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, which have been translated into more than twenty-five languages, Barry Gifford is one of the few contemporary American writers whose characters are familiar to audiences around the world. Recipient of awards from PEN, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Library Association, and the Writers Guild of America, Gifford is one of the enduring voices of his generation.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
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Ghost Years
 
Novels
   A Boy's Novel (1973)
   Port Tropique (1980)
   An Unfortunate Woman (1984)
   A Good Man to Know (1992)
   Night People (1992)
   Arise and Walk (1994)
   Baby Cat-Face (1995)
   The Sinaloa Story (1998)
   Wyoming (2000)
   The Up-down (2015)
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Collections
   Coyote Tantras (poems) (1973)
   The Boy You Have Always Loved (poems) (1976)
   My Mother's People (1976)
   Persimmons (poems) (1977)
   Poems from Snail Hut (poems) (1978)
   Horse Hauling Timber Out of Hokkaido Forest (poems) (1979)
   Beautiful Phantoms (poems) (1981)
   Giotto's Circle (poems) (1988)
   Ghosts No Horse Can Carry (poems) (1988)
   New Mysteries of Paris (1991)
   Hotel Room Trilogy (1995)
   Flaubert at Key West (poems) (1997)
   My Last Martini (2000)
   Replies to Wang Wei (poems) (2001)
   American Falls (2002)
   The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room (2003)
   Do the Blind Dream? (2004)
   Back in America (poems) (2004)
   The Stars Above Vera Cruz (2005)
   Memories From a Sinking Ship (2007)
   Sad Stories of the Death of Kings (2010)
   Imagining Paradise (poems) (2012)
   The Roy Stories (2013)
   Writers (2015)
   New York, 1960 (poems) (2016)
   The Cuban Club (2017)
   Roy's World: Stories 1973-2020 (2020)
   The Boy Who Ran Away to Sea (2022)
   Ghost Years (2024)
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Barry Gifford recommends
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Beneath the Black Palms (2022)
Nolan Knight
"Hardboiled as all get out-no noir devotee will want to."
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A Friend is a Gift You Give Yourself (2019)
William Boyle
"Wolfie Wolfstein is as comfortably intact a creature as any crime writer of recent vintage has put together."
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Still Night in L.A. (2015)
Aram Saroyan
"Aram Saroyan nurses the accelerator in a deceptively laconic way."

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Anthologies containing stories by Barry Gifford
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Paris Noir (2007)
Capital Crime Fiction
edited by
Maxim Jakubowski
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San Francisco Noir (2005)
(Akashic Noir)
edited by
Peter Maravelis
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The Second Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction (1988)
(Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction, book 2)
edited by
Ed Gorman

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