This varied geography proved significant: throughout his career, Gifford’s fiction is born of the clash between what he has referred to as his “Northern Side” and “Southern Side.” Gifford has been recipient of awards from PEN, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Library Association, the Writers Guild of America, and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. From screenplays, poetry, and librettos to his acclaimed Sailor and Lula novels (which include Wild at Heart), Gifford’s writing is as distinctive as it is difficult to classify.īorn in Chicago while his parents were living at the Seneca Hotel, he also spent time in Havana, Key West, and New Orleans while growing up.
The author of more than forty works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, which have been translated into more than thirty languages, Barry Gifford writes distinctly American stories for readers around the globe.
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