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John Lee Farris (born July 26, 1936) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and playwright (with occasional short stories and poetry) who first achieved best-seller status at age twenty-three and is most famous as the author of The Fury (Playboy Press, 1976).
John Farris (1940–2016) was an American poet and novelist who lived in the East Village neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. He is the author of a volume of verse It's not About Time (1993). He is the also author of the novel The Ass's Tale, which won the 2013 Acker Award in fiction. [1]
Written by an author who some consider a modern master of horror fiction, King's "The Things They Left Behind" is the story of a man who didn't go to work on 9/11 and goes to work after the event, finding things his coworkers left behind. Farris's "The Ransome Women" is a thriller about a mysterious painter and the fate of the woman he paints.
Two new books—The Highest Law in the Land, by reporter Jessica Pishko, and The Power of the Badge, by political scientists Emily M. Farris and Mirya R. Holman—argue that such behavior isn't ...
A film adaptation of the novel was released in 1978. Farris wrote the screenplay, Brian De Palma directed and Kirk Douglas and Amy Irving starred. Carrie, a 1974 novel by Stephen King with a similar premise and its 1976 film adaptation was also directed by De Palma and starred Irving.
John Farris, author; born in Jefferson City; Arthur Frommer, travel writer, publisher, consumer advocate, and the founder of the Frommer's series of travel guides; born in Jefferson City; Chester Himes, author; born in Jefferson City; Kent Jones, writer and radio personality; attended Jefferson City public schools
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