Brian Garfield

Brian Garfield is a novelist (author of the cult classics Death Wish and Hopscotch), screenwriter, and an old friend of Donald Westlake's. From his Q & A about Westlake with Levi Stahl of the University of Chicago Press: LTS: As you mentioned earlier, Westlake wrote screenplays—including an Oscar-winning adaptation of Jim Thompson's The Grifters. But he never (as far as I know?) wrote any