William Kotzwinkle

William Kotzwinkle (born 1938^[1] or 1943^[2]) is an American novelist, children's writer, and screenwriter. He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He has won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel for Doctor Rat in 1977, and has also won the National Magazine Award for fiction. Kotzwinkle wrote the novelization of the screenplay for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

Novels

• The Firemen (1969)
• Elephant Boy: A Story of the Stone Age (1970)
• The Day the Gang Got Rich (1970)
• The Ship That Came Down The Gutter (1970)
• The Return of Crazy Horse (1971)
• Hermes 3000 (1972)
• The Supreme, Superb, Exalted and Delightful, One and Only Magic Building (1973)
• The Fan Man (1974)
• Night Book (1974)
• Up the Alley with Jack and Joe (1974)
• Swimmer in the Secret Sea (1975)
• Doctor Rat (1976)
• The Leopard's Tooth (1976)
• Fata Morgana (1977)
• The Ants Who Took Away Time (1978)
• Herr Nightingale And the Satin Woman (1978)
• Dream of Dark Harbor: A Ghostly Sea Story (1979)
• The Nap Master (1979)
• Jack in the Box (1980) (later re-titled as Book of Love at the release of the movie based on it)
• Christmas at Fontaine's (1982)
• Superman III (1983) (film novelization)
• Great World Circus (1983)
• Queen of Swords (1983)
• Seduction in Berlin (1985)
• The Exile (1987)
• The Midnight Examiner (1989)
• The Game of Thirty (1994)
• The Million-Dollar Bear (1995)
• The Bear Went Over the Mountain (1996)
• The Amphora Project (2005)

Collections

• Elephant Bangs Train (1971)
• The Oldest Man: And Other Timeless Stories (1971)
• Trouble in Bugland: A Collection of Inspector Mantis Mysteries (1983)
• Jewel of the Moon (1985)
• Hearts of Wood: And Other Timeless Tales (1986)
• The Hot Jazz Trio (1989)
• Tales from the Empty Notebook (1995)

Short stories

• "The Curio Shop" (1980)
• "Fragments of Papyrus from the Temple of the Older Gods" (1988)
• "Blues on the Nile: A Fragment of Papyrus" (1989)
• "Boxcar Blues" (1989)
• "Django Reinhardt Played the Blues" (1989)
• "Horse Badorties Goes Out" (1973)

Screenplays

• A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) (original story, for the film)
• Book of Love (1990) (adapted from his novel Jack in the Box, for the film)

E.T. the Extra Terrestrial series

• E.T. the Extra Terrestrial (1982) (with Melissa Mathison)
• E.T. the Book of the Green Planet (1985)

Children's books

• The World Is Big and I'm So Small (1986)

• Walter the Farting Dog series (with Glenn Murray)(illustrations by Audrey Colman)

• Walter the Farting Dog (2001) ISBN 1-583-94053-7
• Walter the Farting Dog: Trouble at the Yard Sale (2004) ISBN 0-525-47217-7 (this book has also been released as Walter the Farting Dog Farts Again)
• Rough Weather Ahead for Walter the Farting Dog (2005) ISBN 0-525-47218-5
• Walter the Farting Dog goes on a Cruise (2006) ISBN 0-525-47714-4
• Walter The Farting Dog: Banned From the Beach (June 21, 2007) ISBN 0-525-47812-4 (co-written with Elizabeth Gundy)
• Walter, Canis Inflatus (2004) ISBN 1-583-94110-X

Notes

1. ^ Eyer, Jim (c 2008). "William Kotzwinkle". The Children's Literature Research Collections, Elmer L. Andersen Library, University of Minnesota. http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/CLRC-689.xml. Retrieved June 30, 2010. 
2. ^ "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Teacher's Notes". Penguin Active Reading, Teacher Support Program, Pearson Education Limited. c2009. http://www.penguinreaders.com/pdf/downloads/par/level2/TN-ExtraTerrestrial.pdf. Retrieved June 30, 2010. 

External links

• Eccentric Individuality in William Kotzwinkle's "The Fan Man", "E.T.", "Doctor Rat" and Other Works of Fiction and Fantasy, Leon Lewis (2002)
• biography at fantastic fiction website
• Interview with Kotzwinkle
• William Kotzwinkle at the Internet Movie Database
• William Kotzwinkle at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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Name	Kotzwinkle, William
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Short description	Novelist, short story writer, children's writer, screenwriter
Date of birth	1938
Place of birth	Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of death
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