Brian Francis Wynne Garfield was an Edgar Award-winning American novelist, historian and screenwriter.
14 Facts About Brian Garfield
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Brian Garfield is best known for Death Wish, which launched a lucrative franchise when it was adapted into the 1974 film of the same title.
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Brian Garfield was born in New York City, the son of George Brian Garfield and Frances O'Brien, a portrait artist and friend of Georgia O'Keeffe.
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Brian Garfield was the nephew of chorus dancer and stage manager Chester O'Brien, and a distant relative of Mark Twain.
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Brian Garfield graduated from Southern Arizona School for Boys in Tucson.
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Brian Garfield served in the US Army and the Army Reserves from 1957 to 1965.
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Brian Garfield attended the University of Arizona, from which he received a bachelor's degree in English in 1959 and master's degree in English in 1963.
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Once he turned fifty, Brian Garfield continued to publish, but at a less prolific rate.
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Brian Garfield wrote a sequel, Death Sentence, which was very loosely adapted into the 2007 film of the same name.
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Brian Garfield wrote the screenplay for the 1980 film adaptation starring Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson and Sam Waterston.
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In 1970, Brian Garfield was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History for The Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians.
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Brian Garfield's last book, published in 2007, was a critical biography of the controversial British intelligence officer Richard Meinertzhagen.
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Brian Garfield died at home in Pasadena in December 2018 at the age of 79.
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Brian Garfield's wife said the cause was complications of Parkinson's disease.