Barry Gifford

Barry Gifford is an American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, editor, memoirist, biographer, critic, songwriter, and playwright. From screenplays and librettos to his acclaimed Sailor and Lula novels, Gifford’s writing is as distinctive as it is difficult to classify. Born in the Seneca Hotel on Chicago’s Near North Side, he relocated in his adolescence to New Orleans. The move proved significant: throughout his career, Gifford’s fiction—part-noir, part-picaresque, always entertaining—is born of the clash between what he has referred to as his “Northern Side” and “Southern Side.” Gifford has been recipient of awards from PEN, the National Endowment for the Arts, The American Library Association, and the Writers Guild of America. (Biography sourced from Penguin Random House)

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