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Oakley
Hall is the author of
more than twenty works of fiction, including Warlock, Separations, and the Ambrose Bierce mystery series. Hall is best known for The
Downhill Racer, basis for the 1969 Robert Redford film
of the same name, and Warlock. Hall was the Director of Programs in Writing at the
University of California at Irvine for twenty years. He is also
director of the Squaw
Valley Community of Writers and, in 1998, received a PEN Center
USA/West Award for lifetime literary achievement. In 2004 he was
awarded the Poets & Writers/Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers
Award. He lives in San Francisco and Squaw Valley with his wife of 60
years, Barbara Hall. jasonmanor@sbcglobal.net |
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WRITING BOOKS
Published by Writers Digest
RECENT NOVELS
Biographical
Stuff of
Interest:
I
was born in San Diego, California, in l920. My
father was a construction man whose financial fortunes
crashed in the depression. He and
my mother were divorced, and my youth was spent shuffled back and forth
between
San Diego and Honolulu, where my mother settled. I
attended high school in both places, the University of
Hawaii and San Diego State College. I received a BA from the University
of
California at Berkeley. I served in the Marine Corps in the Pacific,
attaining
the rank of Captain. In l945 I married Barbara Edinger whom IÕd
met at
Berkeley.
After
the war I took creative writing classes at Columbia University. John Farrar accepted my first novel, a
mystery, and I began work on a mainstream novel with a setting of heavy
machinery construction workers, with whom I had had considerable
experience
while working my way through college.
In
Europe on the GI Bill I attended the University of Geneva, the Sorbonne
and
Oxford, returning to the University of Iowa. After receiving my MFA, my
wife
and I moved to Del Mar, in southern California, where I worked on a big
novel, Corpus
of Joe Bailey, a
bildungsroman set in San Diego which was a bestseller; and my first
western
historical, Warlock.
Later
we took up residence in Squaw Valley in the Sierra Nevada, and began
raising a
family In l967 I joined the faculty of the University of California at
Irvine,
where I directed the Graduate Writing Program. A year later I became a
founder
of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, a summer writers conference
now in
its 32nd year.
I
have published 15 novels, 6 mystery novels and two texts on writing, The
Art
and Craft of Novel Writing and How Fiction Works. I
have also
published an opera libretto, Angle of Repose, based on the Stegner
novel. The opera was the bicentennial
offering
of the City of San Francisco, with six performances at War Memorial
Opera
House.
Most
of my later novels have been historicals, with western or Mexican
settings. Warlock was made into a major
motion picture
by 20th Century Fox, The Downhill Racers, one of two skiing-based
novels, into a film by
Paramount, starring Robert Redford.
I was inducted into the Cowboy Hall of Fame in l989, and was the
recipient
of the PEN-West Award of Honor in l998. In 2004, I was given with the Poets
& Writers/Barnes
& Noble Writers for Writers Award.
I
retired from the University of California in l990, and my wife of 60
years,
Barbara Hall and I have since divided my time between Squaw Valley in
the
Sierra Nevada and Russian Hill in San Francisco.
PERSONAL:
Born July 1, l920,
San Diego, California
Married l945, Barbara Edinger
Four children
EDUCATION: Attended University of Hawaii, San
Diego State
College;
BA, University of
California at Berkeley, l943
Attended
Graduate School Columbia University
MFA University of Iowa, l950
PUBLISHED WRITINGS
NOVELS
v
SO MANY DOORS,
Random House,
Bantam
l950
v
CORPUS OF JOE
BAILEY, Viking,
Permabooks
l953
o
(English
editions: Reinhardt,
Act)
o
Arbor House
Library of
Contemporary Americana l983
v
MARDIOS BEACH,
Viking, Bantam
l955
(English
editions: Reinhardt, Corgi)
v
WARLOCK,
Viking, Bantam
1958
o
Commonwealth
Club of San Francisco
Silver Medal
o
Nominated for
Pulitzer Prize
o
Bison Western
Classics
Edition, University of
o
Nebraska Press,
l988
o
Western
Literature Series,
University of Nevada
o
Press, l996
o
(English
editions: Bodley
Head, White Lion, Pan)
o
(Spanish
edition: Luis
Caralt, Barcelona)
o
Film by
Twentieth-Century Fox
l959
v
New York Review
of Books
Classic Novels, (2006) in press
v
THE DOWNHILL
RACERS, Viking,
Bantam
l962
o
(English
editions: Bodley
Head, Corgi)
o
Film by
Paramount, l973
v
THE PLEASURE
GARDEN, Viking,
Pyramid
l966
v
REPORT FROM
BEAU HARBOR.
Morrow, Bantam
l972
v
THE ADELITA,
Doubleday
l975
v
THE BAD LANDS,
Atheneum,
Crest, Bantam
l978
o
A
Book-of-the-Month Club
Alternate Selection
v
LULLABY,
Atheneum
l982
o
A Preferred
Choice Book Club
Selection
v
THE CHILDREN OF
THE SUN,
Atheneum
l983
v
THE COMING OF
THE KID, Harper
& Row
l985
v
APACHES, Simon
&
Schuster, Bantam
l986
v
SEPARATIONS,
University of
Nevada Press
l997
o
Southwest Book
Award
l998
NONFICTION
v
THE ART AND
CRAFT OF NOVEL
WRITING,
Writers
Digest Books, Story Press
l989
v
HOW FICTION
WORKS, Story
Press
2001
MYSTERY NOVELS: (Published
under pseudonyms)
As
O.M. Hall:
v
MURDER CITY,
Farrar, Straus,
Pocket Books
l949
o
A Mystery Book
Club Selection
o
(French
edition: Series
Scorpion)
As
Jason Manor:
v
TOO DEAD TO
RUN, Viking,
Permabooks
l953
o
(English
editions: Secker
& Warburg, Corgi)
o
(Italian
edition: Garazanti)
o
(French
edition: Series
Noirs)
o
(Swedish
edition: H.
Wahlstrom Bokfarlag)
v
THE RED JAGUAR,
Viking,
Popular Library
l954
o
(Foreign
editions same as
above)
v
THE PAWNS OF
FEAR, Viking,
Bantam
l955
o
(Foreign
editions same as
above)
v
THE TRAMPLERS,
Viking, Bantam
l956
o
(Foreign
editions same as
above)
As
Oakley Hall
v
A GAME FOR
EAGLES, Morrow,
Bantam
l970
v
AMBROSE BIERCE
AND THE QUEEN
OF SPADES,
University
of California Press,
l998
¤
Penguin-Mystery
¤
French edition:
Editions
Joelle Losfeld
¤
Brazilian
edition: Editoria
Record
v
AMBROSE BIERCE
AND THE DEATH
Of KINGS, Viking-Penguin
2001
¤
(French
edition: Editions
Joelle Losfeld)
¤
Penguin Mystery
v
AMBROSE BIERCE
AND THE
ONE-EYED JACKS,
2003
¤
Penguin Mystery
v
AMBROSE BIERCE
AND THE TREY
OF PEARLS
2004
Penguin
Mystery
v
AMBROSE BIERCE
AND THE ACE OF
SHOOTS
2005
LIBRETTO;
v
ANGLE OF
REPOSE, The Shawnee
Press
l975
(Opera adapted from the novel by Wallace Stegner,
Music by Andrew Imbrie; The City of San
FranciscoÕs
Bicentennial offering, with six performances by
the
San Francisco Opera Company at the War Memorial
Opera House, l976)
HONORS, AWARDS, etc
v
Commonwealth
Club of San
Francisco Silver Medal
o
(Warlock)
l959
v
National
Endowment for the
Arts Fellowships
l975, l977
v
San Francisco
Writers Round
Table
l977-
v
Spur Award,
Western Writers
of America
l983
v
Cowboy Hall of
Fame "Wrangler
Award"
for Outstanding Magazine Article on the West
l989
v
First Annual
"San Diego
Author" Award
v
of the San
Diego Historical
Society
l996
v
PEN-West Award
of Honor
1998
v Poets and Writers/Barnes & Noble "Writers for Writers" Award 2003
Ambrose
Bierce
J.H.E. Partington Library of Congress
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