- Clancy Carlile
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Clancy Carlile Born Clarence Lawson Carlile
January 18, 1930
Choctaw Indian reservation in Oklahoma, United StatesDied June 4, 1998 (aged 68)
Austin, TexasOccupation Author Nationality American Genres Novels, Screenplay Children Steven Clancy Carlile (January 18, 1930 – June 4, 1998)[1] was an American novelist and screenwriter of Cherokee descent. He is perhaps best known for his 1980 novel Honkytonk Man, made into a film by Clint Eastwood.
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Early years
Carlile was born on a Choctaw Indian reservation in Oklahoma, the son of a father who was half Cherokee Indian. He had an erratic childhood,[2] and moved to Texas at a young age. Carlile was a high school drop-out.[3] He worked as a cotton picker until his family moved to California to pick fruit. He served in the army during the Korean War and after being discharged, obtained a master's degree at San Francisco State University.[4]
Career
Carlile began writing, and penned his first novel, presumably As I Was Young and Easy (1958) in just 17 days. This was followed by Spore 7 (1979). In Honkytonk Man (1980), the tale of the life and death of a country singer which was made into a film by Clint Eastwood in which Eastwood also starred,[4] Carlile wrote both the novel and the screenplay.[5] His final novel, Children of the Dust (1995), about the settling of Oklahoma, was made into a CBS mini-series featuring Sidney Poitier. This novel is related to the author's heritage, being from the Oklahoma Territory. The story is set in the late 1880s, with Gypsy Smith (Poitier) being a gunslinger of African American and Cherokee descent who helps African American homesteaders settle the territory under the specter of white people. The novel, The Paris Pilgrims, regarding a mix of memoirs, biographies and fiction[6] of famous American expatriates in 1920s Paris,[3] was published posthumously in 1999.
Personal life
Carlile spent much of his later life in Austin, Texas where he had a writing fellowship at the University of Texas.[3] Carlile had at least one child, a son, Steven, and four grandchildren.[4] He died in Austin from cancer at the age of 68 on June 4, 1998.[4]
References
- ^ Pimsleur, J.L. (June 25, 1998). "Books In Brief". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://articles.sfgate.com/1998-06-25/news/17723855_1_dust-bowl-novel-clancy-carlile.
- ^ Folkart, Burt A. (June 12, 2010). "Clancy Carlile; 'Honkytonk Man' Author". The Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1998/jun/12/news/mn-59284. Retrieved December 10, 2010.
- ^ a b c Pimsleur, J.L. (June 25, 1998). "Obituary Clancy Carlile". SFgate. http://articles.sfgate.com/1998-06-25/news/17723855_1_dust-bowl-novel-clancy-carlile. Retrieved December 14, 2010.
- ^ a b c d "Clancy Carlile, 68, Author and Screenwriter". The New York Times. June 29, 1998. http://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/29/arts/clancy-carlile-68-author-and-screenwriter.html. Retrieved December 11, 2010.
- ^ Eastwood, Clint; Kapsis, Robert E.; Coblentz, Kathie (1999). Clint Eastwood: interviews. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. xxxiv. ISBN 1578060702. http://books.google.com/books?id=xtcOxK2RlDoC&pg=PR34.
- ^ Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher (July 7, 1999). "BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Fleshing Out Hemingway With Literary License". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/07/books/books-of-the-times-fleshing-out-hemingway-with-literary-license.html. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
Categories:- 1930 births
- 1998 deaths
- American novelists
- American screenwriters
- Native American writers
- Writers from Oklahoma
- Writers from Texas
- People from Oklahoma
- People from Austin, Texas
- Cancer deaths in Texas
- American people of Cherokee descent
- Native American novelists
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