Showing posts with label John Gardner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Gardner. Show all posts

Sunday, July 21, 2024

Born on this day – John Gardner:


John Gardner

Writer

July 21, 1933 – September 14, 1982

Credits:

Books:

Come on Back (1981); Dragon, Dragon (1975); Dragon, Dragon and Other Tales (1975); Freddy's Book (1980); Grendel (1971); Gudgekin the Thistle Girl (1976); Gudgekin the Thistle Girl and Other Tales (1976); He Clinc'd the Colossal Door (1971); In the Suicide Mountains (1977); Jason and Medeia (1973); John Napper Sailing Through the Universe (1974); Julius Caesar and the Werewolf (1984); King Gregor and the Fool (1974); Mickelsson's Ghosts (1982); Muriel (1974); Nimram (1981); Pastoral Care (1974); Queen Louisa (1972); Redemption (1981); So they announced (1972); So We Decided (1972); Stillness (1981); The Art of Living (1981); The Art of Living and Other Stories (1981); The Gnome and the Dragons (1977); The Griffin and the Wise Old Philosopher (1976); The Joy of the Just (1981); The King of the Hummingbirds (1977); The King of the Hummingbirds and Other Tales (1977); The King's Indian (1974); The King's Indian: A Tale (1974); The Last Piece of Light (1975); The Library Horror (1981); The Miller's Mule (1975); The Music Lover (1981); The Pear Tree (1977); The Ravages of Spring (1973); The Sea Gulls (1976); The Shape-Shifters of Shorm (1976); The Tailor and the Giant (1975); The Temptation of St. Ivo (1974); The Warden (1974); The Witch's Wish (1977); Trumpeter (1981); Vlemk the Box-Painter (1979); Vlemk the Box-Painter (1981).

Movies and television:

Biography (2006); The Liquidator (1965); The Stone Killer (1973); Wogan (1988).

Thursday, May 2, 2024

John Gardner, on writing:


Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat.
It helps, if you have a plan and a course laid out.

- John Gardner.

Monday, November 20, 2023

Born on this day – John Gardner:


John Gardner

Writer

November 20, 1926 – August 3, 2007

Credits:

The Liquidator (1964); Understrike (1965); Amber Nine (1966); Madrigal (1967); Hideaway (1968); Founder Member (1969); Traitor's Exit (1970); The Airline Pirates (1973); Air Apparent (1973); The Assassination File (1974); A Killer for a Song (1975); A Complete State of Death (1970); The Corner Men (1976); Bottled Spider (2002); Streets of Town (2003); Angels Dining at the Ritz (2004); Troubled Midnight (2005); No Human Enemy (2007); The Nostradamus Traitor (1979); The Garden of Weapons (1981); The Quiet Dogs (1988); Maestro (1993); Confessor (1995); The Return of Moriarty (1974); The Revenge of Moriarty (1975); Moriarty (2008); The Secret Generations (1985); The Secret Houses (1987); The Secret Families (1989); Colonel Sun (By: Kingsley Amis) (1968); License Renewed (1981); For Special Services (1982); Icebreaker (1983); Role of Honor (1984); Nobody Lives Forever (1986); No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987); Scorpius (1988); Licence to Kill (1989); Win, Lose or Die (1989); Brokenclaw (1990); The Man from Barbarossa (1991); Death Is Forever (1992); Never Send Flowers (1993); SeaFire (1994); GoldenEye (1995); Cold Fall (1996); Zero Minus Ten (1997); Tomorrow Never Dies (1997); The Facts of Death (1998); The World is Not Enough (1999); High Time to Kill (1999); Doubleshot (2000); Never Dream of Dying (2001); The Man With the Red Tattoo (2002); Die Another Day (2002); Devil May Care (2008); Carte Blanche (2011); Solo (2013); Trigger Mortis (2015); Forever and a Day (2018); With a Mind to Kill (2022); The Censor (1972); Every Night's a Bullfight (1973); The Director (1973); To Run a Little Faster (1976); The Werewolf Trace (1977); The Dancing Dodo (1979); Golgotha (1980); The Last Trump (1980); Blood of the Fathers (1992); Day of Absolution (2001); On Becoming a Novelist (1983); On Writers and Writing (1994); The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1999).