Brian Garfield
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| Born | Brian Francis Wynne Garfield January 26, 1939  New York City, New York, United States |
| Died | December 29, 2018 (Age 79) |
| Nationality | American |
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]
