Hal Bennett

Hal Bennett, born George Harold Bennett, is an author known for a variety of books. His most famous novel is probably "Lord of Dark Places", which has recently been reprinted. He has won the Faulkner Award, as well as Playboy's most promising writer of the year [http://www.turtlepoint.com/catalogue/bennett-lordofdarkplaces.html] . He has also written under the pen names Harriet Janeway and John D. Revere (the Assassin series). His books are sometimes compared to Mark Twain's style of satire, but contain a much stronger sexual tone.

elected Bibliography

[Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook (Hardcover) by Emmanuel S. Nelson (Editor)]
* The Mexico City Poems and House on Hay (Chicago: Obsidian Press, 1961)
* A Wilderness of Vines (Garden City: Doubleday, 1966)
* The Black Wine (Garden City: Doubleday, 1968)
* Lord of Dark Places (New York: Norton, 1970) (ISBN 1885983123) (ISBN 9781885983121)
* Wait Until the Evening (Garden City: Doubleday, 1974) (ISBN 0385010222) (ISBN 9780385010221)
* Seventh Heaven (Garden City: Doubleday, 1976) (ISBN 0385066597) (ISBN 9780385066594)
* Insanity Runs In Our Family: Short Stories (Garden City: Doubleday, 1977)(ISBN 0385066643) (ISBN 9780385066648)

as Harriet Janeway

* The Passionate Land (1979)

as John D. Revere

* Justin Perry : The Assassin
* The Assassin 2 : Vatican Kill
* The Assassin 3 : Born To Kill
* The Assassin 4: Death's Running Mate
* The Assassin 5: Stud Service

Autobiography

* The Visible Man (1991)

References

External links

* [http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/archives-cc/app/details.php?id=7415&return=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bu.edu%2Fphpbin%2Farchives-cc%2Fapp%2Fbrowse.php%3Fletter%3DB%26sort_column%3Dcomposite_name%26sort_direction%3DASC%26per_page%3D10%26offset%3D40%26set_page%3Dnext The Hal Bennett collection] in the [http://www.bu.edu/archives/holdings/contemporary/index.html Contemporary Collections] at the [http://www.bu.edu/archives/ Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University]