Brian Garfield

Brian Francis Wynne Garfield (1939–2018) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and historian who authored over 70 books across genres including Westerns, thrillers, mysteries, and non-fiction, selling more than 20 million copies worldwide with 19 adapted into films or TV. IMDb. Best known for Death Wish (1972), which inspired a major film franchise starring Charles Bronson, and Hopscotch (1975), for which he won the Edgar Award for Best Novel, he was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Thousand-Mile War (1969). Birthdays.