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William Hjortsberg

Born 23 Feb 1941 in New York City, New York, USADied 22 Apr 2017aged 766 credits

William Reinhold "Gatz" Hjortsberg was an American novelist and screenwriter, known for his originality and for writing the screenplay of the film Legend. His novel Falling Angel was the basis for the film Angel Heart (1987). The novel was adapted into an opera in 2015, composed by J. Mark Scearce with a libretto by Lucy Thurber. His 2015 novel Mañana is a thriller set in Mexico. Hjortsberg was the only child of a Swedish restaurateur father and a Swiss mother. He attended Dartmouth College, the Yale School of Drama (where he met Thomas McGuane), and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He was married three times, and had a son and a daughter. He died of pancreatic cancer. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Hjortsberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

William Reinhold “Gatz” Hjortsberg 是一位美国小说家和编剧,以其独创性和撰写电影《传奇》的剧本而闻名。他的小说《堕落天使》是电影《天使之心》(1987)的基础。这部小说于 2015 年被改编成歌剧,由 J. Mark Scearce 作曲,Lucy Thurber 作词。他 2015 年的小说《Mañana》是一部以墨西哥为背景的惊悚片。 Hjortsberg是瑞典餐馆老板父亲和瑞士母亲的独生子。他曾就读于达特茅斯学院、耶鲁大学戏剧学院(在那里他遇到了托马斯·麦瓜恩),并且是斯坦福大学的斯蒂格纳研究员。他结过三次婚,育有一子一女。他死于胰腺癌。

William Reinhold “Gatz” Hjortsberg 是一位美國小説家和編劇,以其獨創性和撰寫電影《大時代》的劇本而聞名。他的小説《折翼天使首部曲:魔咒之吻》是電影《天使追魂》(1987)的基礎。這部小説於 2015 年被改編成歌劇,由 J.Mark Scearce 作曲,Lucy Thurber 作詞。他 2015 年的小説《Mañana》是一部以墨西哥為背景的驚悚片。 Hjortsberg 是瑞典餐館老闆父親和瑞士母親的獨生子。他曾就讀於達特茅斯學院、耶魯大學戲劇學院(在那裏他遇到了託馬斯·麥瓜恩),並且是斯坦福大學的斯蒂格納研究員。他結過三次婚,育有一子一女。他死於胰腺癌。