Hjortsberg, William

William Hjortsberg (b. 1941) is an acclaimed author of novels and screenplays. Born in New York City, Hjortsberg s first success came with "Alp" (1969), an offbeat story of an Alpine skiing village, which Hjortsberg s friend Thomas McGuane called, quite possibly the finest comic novel written in America. In the 1970s, Hjortsberg wrote two science fiction novels, "Gray Matters "(1971) and "Symbiography" (1973), as well as "Toro! Toro! Toro!" (1974), a comic jab at the macho world of bullfighting. His best-known work is "Falling Angel" (1978), a hard-boiled occult mystery. In 1987 the book was a...