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American writer

Brian Francis Wynne Garfield (January 26, 1939 – December 29, 2018) was an Edgar Award winning American novelist, historian and screenwriter. A Pulitzer Prize finalist, he wrote his first published book at the age of eighteen. Garfield went on to author more than seventy books across a variety of genres, selling more than twenty million copies worldwide. Nineteen were made into films or TV shows. He is best known for Death Wish (1972), which launched a lucrative franchise when it was adapted into the 1974 film of the same title.

Garfield was born in New York City, the son of George Garfield and Frances O'Brien, a portrait artist and friend of Georgia O'Keeffe. O'Keeffe had introduced the pair. He was the nephew of chorus dancer and stage manager Chester O'Brien, and a distant relative of Mark Twain.

In the 1950s Garfield toured with the Palisades, who released a single on the Calico label. He attended the University of Arizona and served in the U. S. Army and the Army Reserves from 1957 to 1965.

Garfield died at home in Pasadena in December 2018 at the age of 79. His wife said the cause was complications of Parkinson's disease. When he died, Lawrence Block tweeted, “RIP Brian Garfield. Fine writer, friend for years”. In 2015, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center in Santa Fe announced that Brian Garfield and his wife had given a gift of correspondence between O'Keeffe and Garfield's mother, Frances O'Brien, "that provides insight into the women's shared work ethic, their era and their sense of humor — and shows O'Keeffe's penchant for dashes in her informal notes. The gift includes letters, postcards, interviews and other materials from the 1940s to the 1970s that were collected by O'Brien".

+Credited to Brian Garfield or Brian Wynne Garfield unless otherwise indicated. Year Title Author Credit Main Character(s) Notes1960Range JusticeTracy ChavisFirst novel set in fictional town of Spanish Flat, Arizona. Certain characters reappear in the Jeremy Six series. Abridged and reissued as Justice at Spanish Flat (1961).1961The Arizonans1961Massacre BasinFrank Wynne1962The Big SnowFrank Wynne1962The Rimfire MurdersFrank O'BrianContemporary mystery set in Spanish Flat.1962Arizona RiderFrank Wynne1962The Lawbringers1962Trail Drive19627 Brave MenBennett GarlandLancer and Magnum Books editions (1962) credited to Brian Garfield.1963Vultures in the Sun1963 Apache CanyonJustin Harris1963Dragoon PassFrank Wynne1963High StormBennett Garland1964The Last OutlawBennett GarlandMagnum Books edition (1964) credited to Brian Garfield.1964Rails WestFrank Wynne1964Mr. SixgunBrian WynneJeremy SixFirst appearance of Marshall Jeremy Six. Set in Spanish Flat, with some characters from Range Justice returning.1964Rio ConchoFrank Wynne1964The Vanquished1965Lynch Law CanyonFrank Wynne1965The Night It Rained BulletsBrian WynneJeremy Six1966Call Me HazardFrank Wynne1966The Lusty BreedFrank WynneFirst chapter set in Spanish Flat; Jeremy Six appears briefly.1966The Wolf PackFrank Wynne1966The Last Bridge1966Bugle & SpurFrank O'BrianJustin HarrisLater editions credited to Brian Garfield.1966The BravosBrian WynneJeremy Six1967The Proud RidersBrian WynneJeremy Six, Tracy Chavis1967A Badge for a Badman Brian WynneJeremy Six, Tracy Chavis1967Rio ChamaBennett Garland1968Brand of the GunBrian WynneJeremy Six1968Buchanan's GunJonas WardTom BuchananSeventh novel in the Tom Buchanan series. Other Buchanan novels were written by William Ard, William R. Cox, and Robert Silverberg (as Jonas Ward).1968Savage GunsAlex Hawk1968ArizonaBallantine Books edition (1969) credited to Frank O'Brian.1969GundownBrian WynneJeremy Six, Tracy ChavisNot to be confused with later Gun Down written by Garfield. 1969Big Country, Big MenBrian WynneJeremy SixFinal Jeremy Six novel written by Garfield. The last book in the series, Gunslick Territory (1973), was written by Dean Owen a. k. a. Dudley Dean McGaughey (as Brian Wynne).1970Valley of the Shadow1970Sliphammer1970The Hit1970The Villiers Touch1971What of Terry Conniston?1971Sweeny's HonorFirst publication in the U. K. (Coronet, 1974) credited to Frank Wynne.1971Gun DownReissued as The Last Hard Men as a tie in to the film adaptation. First publication in the UK (Coronet, 1974) credited to Frank Wynne.1971Deep Cover1972Death WishPaul BenjaminBasis for the 1974 Charles Bronson film (and its four sequels).1972RelentlessSam WatchmanBasis for the 1977 TV film.1972Line of Succession1973Kolchak's Gold1973Gangway!Collaboration with Donald E. Westlake.1973Tripwire1974The Romanov Succession1974The Threepersons HuntSam Watchman1975Death SentencePaul BenjaminBasis for the 2007 film Death Sentence (starring Kevin Bacon and directed by James Wan), which credits Garfield but does not follow the action of the novel. 1975Hopscotch Winner of the Edgar Award (Best Novel of the Year). Basis for the 1980 Hopscotch (film). Certain characters reappear in the collection Checkpoint Charlie (1981).1975Act of Piracy Frank O'Brian1975Target Manhattan Drew Mallory1977Recoil1978Fear in a Handful of Dust John IvesBasis for the 1984 film Fleshburn.1978Wild TimesBasis for the 1980 TV mini series.1979The Marchand WomanJohn Ives1979The PaladinCollaboration with Christopher Creighton.1984Necessity1989Manifest Destiny1990Cemetery Jones and the Tombstone WarCemetery JonesAfter author William R. Cox died, Garfield finished this novel (uncredited).2003The Hit and The MarksmanThe Hit was originally published in 1970. The Marksman is a novella based on an unproduced screenplay.

The Last Hard Men (1976) Garfield did uncredited rewrites. Based on his novel Gun Down (1971). Hopscotch (1980) Based on his novel. The Stepfather (1987) Screenplay by Donald E. Westlake, based on a story by Garfield, Westlake, and Carolyn Lefcourt.