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William Hjortsberg

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born

February 23, 1941 in New York City, The United States

website

http://www.williamhjortsberg.com/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Science Fiction & Fantasy

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William Hjortsberg (b. 1941) is an acclaimed author of novels and screenplays. Born in New York City, he attended college at Dartmouth and spent a year at the Yale School of Drama before leaving to become a writer. For the next few years he lived in the Caribbean and Europe, writing two unpublished novels, the second of which earned him a creative writing fellowship at Stanford University.

When his fellowship ended in 1968, Hjortsberg was discouraged, still unpublished, and making ends meet as a grocery store stock boy. No longer believing he could make a living as a novelist, he began writing strictly for his own amusement. The result was Alp (1969), an absurd story of an Alpine skiing village which Hjortsberg’s friend Thomas McGuane called...more

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Books by William Hjortsberg

Average rating: 3.80 · 667 ratings · 120 reviews · 21 distinct works

	Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg, Ridley Scott (Foreword by), James Crumley (Introduction) 3.93 avg rating — 478 ratings — published 1980 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Nevermore 3.18 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Gray Matters 3.34 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1971 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Odd Corners: The Slip-Stream World of William Hjortsberg 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Alp 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Angel Heart 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1978 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Angel Heart - Ascensore per l'inferno 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1978	My rating:
	Toro! Toro! Toro! 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1974 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Angel Heart/Nevermore 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating: