- Rudy Wurlitzer
Rudolph "Rudy" Wurlitzer (born 1937) is an American novelist and screenwriter. His books include "Nog", "Flats", "Quake", and "Slow Fade". He also wrote a non-fiction book "Hard Travel to Sacred Places.
Among his many screenplays are:
*"Glen & Randa" (directed by Jim McBride), 1969
*"Two-Lane Blacktop " (directed byMonte Hellman ), 1971
*"Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid " (directed bySam Peckinpah ), 1973
*"Walker" (directed byAlex Cox ), 1987
*"Candy Mountain" (co-directed byRobert Frank and Rudy Wurlitzer), 1988
*"Homo Faber" (aka "Voyager") (directed byVolker Schlöndorff ), 1991
*"Wind" (directed byCarroll Ballard ), 1992
*"Little Buddha " (directed byBernardo Bertolucci ), 1993He wrote the libretto for Philip Glass' opera "In The Penal Colony", and has also written four TV scripts for "
100 Centre Street ", directed bySidney Lumet .His latest novel is "The Drop Edge of Yonder", released spring 2008 from Two Dollar Radio. The book is based on Wurlitzer's unproduced screenplay "Zebulon", which served as the inspiration for
Jim Jarmusch 's film "Dead Man ".External links
* [http://www.rudolphwurlitzer.com/ Official site of Rudy Wurlitzer]
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* [http://www.zebulonlives.com/ Official site for Wurlitzer's latest novel]
* [http://www.vertigomagazine.co.uk/showarticle.php?sel=onl&siz=1&id=1013 "Vertigo" magazine] interview
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