William Hjortsberg





William Hjortsberg

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

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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 For the next few years he lived in the Caribbean and Europe, writing two unpublished novels, the second of which earned him a creative writing fellowship at Stanford University.

When his fellowship ended in 1968, Hjortsberg was discouraged, still unpublished, and making ends meet as a grocery store stock boy.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


Average rating: 3.80 · 667 ratings · 120 reviews · 21 distinct works
Falling Angel
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 478 ratings — published 1980 — 16 editions
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Nevermore
3.18 of 5 stars 3.18 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions
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Gray Matters
3.34 of 5 stars 3.34 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1971 — 8 editions
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Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Lif...
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2012
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Odd Corners: The Slip-Strea...
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2004
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Alp
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings4 editions
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Angel Heart
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1978 — 8 editions
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Angel Heart - Ascensore per...
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1978
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Toro! Toro! Toro!
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1974 — 2 editions
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Angel Heart/Nevermore
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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