Newton Thornburg

Newton Thornburg

Newton Thornburg (13 May 1929 - 9 May 2011)[1] was an American novelist and screenwriter.

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Early life

Born in Harvey, Illinois, Thornburg graduated from the University of Iowa with a Fine Arts degree. He worked in a variety of jobs before devoting himself to writing full-time (or at least in tandem with his cattle farm in the Ozarks) in 1973.

Writing

His 1976 novel Cutter and Bone was filmed in 1981 as Cutter's Way. The New York Times called Cutter and Bone "the best novel of its kind for ten years." Another novel-to film Beautiful Kate was filmed in Australia in 2009 and starred Bryan Brown and Ben Mendelsohn. It was directed by Rachel Ward, who is Bryan Brown's real-life wife.

Personal life

Thornburg died on May 9th, 2011, a few days shy of his 82nd birthday.[2]

Bibliography

His other novels include Gentleman Born (1967), Knockover (1968), To Die in California (1973), Black Angus (1979), Valhalla (1980), Dreamland (1984), The Lion at the Door (1990), A Man's Game (1996) and Eve's Men (1998).

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