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Brian Garfield


Born
in New York City, The United States
April 24, 1939

Died
December 29, 2018

Website

Genre
Espionage, Thriller, Western


Brian Francis Wynne Garfield was an American novelist and screenwriter. He wrote his first published book at the age of eighteen and wrote several novels under such pen names as "Frank Wynne" and "'Brian Wynne" before gaining prominence when his book Hopscotch (1975) won the 1976 Edgar Award for Best Novel. He is best known for his 1972 novel Death Wish, which was adapted for the 1974 film of the same title, followed by four sequels, and a remake starring Bruce Willis.

His follow-up 1975 sequel to Death Wish, Death Sentence, was very loosely adapted into a film of the same name which was released to theaters in late 2007, though an entirely different storyline, but with the novel's same look on vigilantism. Garfield is also the author of Th ...more

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Average rating: 3.87 · 6,202 ratings · 654 reviews · 141 distinct works • Similar authors
Death Wish (Paul Benjamin, #1)
3.73 avg rating — 1,826 ratings — published 1972 — 44 editions
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Death Sentence
3.81 avg rating — 926 ratings — published 1975 — 29 editions
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Hopscotch
3.96 avg rating — 612 ratings — published 1967 — 29 editions
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The Thousand-Mile War: Worl...
4.22 avg rating — 514 ratings — published 1969 — 33 editions
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The Paladin
3.90 avg rating — 372 ratings — published 1980 — 3 editions
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Wild Times
4.27 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 1978 — 14 editions
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The Last Hard Men
4.17 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 1971 — 10 editions
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Recoil
3.66 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1977 — 23 editions
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Kolchak's Gold
3.67 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1973 — 20 editions
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Tripwire
3.85 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1973 — 11 editions
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Death Wish Death Sentence
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“Living is something most of us postpone, isn't it? We sell the present for a chance at a future where we may do our living when we're old and we've lost the talent for it.”
― Brian Garfield, Hopscotch
tags: living-now
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