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William Reinhold "Gatz" Hjortsberg (February 23, 1941 – April 22, 2017) was an American novelist and screenwriter, who wrote the screenplay of the film Legend. His novel Falling Angel was the basis for the film Angel Heart (1987).
Apr 22, 2017 · William Hjortsberg was 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.
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Apr 28, 2017 · William “Gatz” Hjortsberg had everything going for him except time. Days before the diagnosis in early March—pancreatic cancer, stage IV—Gatz had finished the long-awaited sequel to his groundbreaking novel, Falling Angel.
Genre-defying American novelist and screenwriter. “Normal? Hateful word, normal. No meaning whatsoever.” -Willliam Hjortsberg. “The tomb lies at the end of every path. Only the soul is immortal. Guard this treasure well. Your decaying husk is but a temporary vessel on an endless voyage.” -Willliam Hjortsberg.
May 13, 2017 · Author William Hjortsberg, who wrote the screenplay for Legend and the novel Falling Angel (which was adapted into the film Angel Heart ), died April 22 in Livingston, Mont.,...
Born in New York City, Hjortsberg’s first success came with Alp (1969), an offbeat story of an Alpine skiing village, which Hjortsberg’s friend Thomas McGuane called “quite possibly the finest comic novel written in America." In the 1970s, Hjortsberg wrote two science fiction novels, Gray Matters (1971) and Symbiography (1973), as ...
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William Hjortsberg was born on 23 February 1941 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Legend (1985), Angel Heart (1987) and Thunder and Lightning (1977). He was married to Margaret Jane Camp, Sharon Leroy and Marian Souidee Renken.
