Brian Garfield

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BornBrian Francis Wynne Garfield
January 26, 1939
New York City, New York, United States
DiedDecember 29, 2018 (Age 79)
NationalityAmerican
American novelist

Brian Francis Wynne Garfield was an American novelist, historian and screenwriter. A Pulitzer Prize finalist, he wrote his first published book at the age of eighteen.[1] Garfield went on to author more than seventy books across a variety of genres, selling more than twenty million copies worldwide.[2] Nineteen were made into films or TV shows. He is best known for Death Wish (1972), which launched a lucrative franchise when it was adapted into the 1974 film of the same title.

In 1970, Garfield was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History for The Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians. His last book, published in 2007, was a critical biography of the controversial British intelligence officer Richard Meinertzhagen.[3]


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