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| Robert Ward | |
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| Occupation | Novelist, Journalist, Television Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Subjects | Crime fiction |
| Notable work(s) | Red Baker, Four Kinds of Rain, The King of Cards |
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www.robert-ward.com |
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Robert Ward is an American writer. He is a native of Baltimore currently living in Los Angeles and has numerous credits to his name such as novelist, teacher, journalist, screenwriter, producer and actor.
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Biography
Novelist
Shedding Skin was published in 1972 and took five years to complete. Ward worked on it for two years while living in a hippie commune in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. He destroyed the first draft of the manuscript before moving back to Baltimore where he began working on it once again. In 1968, in the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., he escaped the North Ave. riots in Baltimore with only his manuscript and guitar before his block was burned down.
Some chapters from Shedding Skin were published in the Winter 1970 Carolina Quarterly. It was published by Harper & Row in 1972. After publication it won the National Endowment of the Arts award for first novel of exceptional merit.
Cattle Annie and Little Britches was adapted into a movie in 1981 that was directed by Lamont Johnson. Ward adapted his own novel. It saw some favorable responses from critics, including praise from The New York Times, before being pulled from theaters after only one week.
After the publication of Red Baker it was optioned and Ward wrote a screenplay for it. David Milch read the screenplay and offered Ward a job on Hill Street Blues. The episode "Oh You Kid" was based on the pitch.
Red Baker won the Pen West Award as The Best Novel Published in the United States in 1985.
Grace is a fictional biography of his grandmother, a Baltimore activist in the Civil Rights Movement.
Four Kinds of Rain was a 2006 nominee for the Hammett Prize.
Ward's next novel is titled Total Immunity and came out in 2009. It will be the first book in a series with an F.B.I. protagonist, Agent Jack Harper.
Personal life
Robert Ward was born in Baltimore, Maryland. When he was 15 years old he went to live with his paternal grandmother, Grace, a local social activist. He did his undergraduate work at Towson State University before earning his MFA in writing at the University of Arkansas.[1] While living in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco he began working on his first novel, Shedding Skin, before moving back to Baltimore for its completion. After the publication of his fourth novel, Red Baker, in 1985 he was approached by David Milch and offered a job to write for Hill Street Blues. He continues to write and produce television shows and movies as well publish novels.
Bibliography
Novels
- Shedding Skin (1972)
- Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1977)
- The Sandman (1978)
- Red Baker (1985)
- The King of Cards (1993)
- The Cactus Garden (1995)
- Grace (1998)
- Four Kinds of Rain (2006)
- Total Immunity (forthcoming 2009)
Filmography
Writer
- Cattle Annie and Little Britches[2]
- Hill Street Blues :
- Episode 6.6 "Oh You Kid"[3]
- Episode 6.10 "The Virgin and the Turkey"[4]
- Episode 6.11 "Two Easy Pieces"[5]
- Episode 6.12 "Say It as it Plays"[6]
- Episode 6.14 "Scales of Justice"[7]
- Episode 6.18 "Iced Coffey"[8]
- Episode 6.21 "Slum Enchanted Evening"[9]
- Episode 7.3 "The Best Defense"[10]
- Episode 7.7 "Amazing Grace"[11]
- Episode 7.8 "Falling From Grace"[12]
- Episode 7.17 "The Cookie Crumbles"
- Miami Vice :
- C.A.T. Squad: Python Wolf[14]
- Brotherhood of the Gun[15]
- Green Dolphin Beat[16]
- New York Undercover :
References
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ [2]
- ^ TV.com (1985-11-06). "Hill Street Blues - Season 6, Episode 6: Oh, You Kid". TV.com. http://www.tv.com/hill-street-blues/oh-you-kid/episode/52024/summary.html. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
- ^ TV.com (1985-12-11). "Hill Street Blues - Season 6, Episode 10: The Virgin and the Turkey". TV.com. http://www.tv.com/hill-street-blues/the-virgin-and-the-turkey/episode/52028/summary.html. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
- ^ TV.com (1986-01-08). "Hill Street Blues - Season 6, Episode 11: Two Easy Pieces". TV.com. http://www.tv.com/hill-street-blues/two-easy-pieces/episode/52029/summary.html. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
- ^ TV.com (1986-01-15). "Hill Street Blues - Season 6, Episode 12: Say It as It Plays". TV.com. http://www.tv.com/hill-street-blues/say-it-as-it-plays/episode/52030/summary.html. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
- ^ TV.com (1986-01-29). "Hill Street Blues - Season 6, Episode 14: Scales of Justice". TV.com. http://www.tv.com/hill-street-blues/scales-of-justice/episode/52032/summary.html. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
- ^ TV.com (1986-03-05). "Hill Street Blues - Season 6, Episode 18: Iced Coffey". TV.com. http://www.tv.com/hill-street-blues/iced-coffey/episode/52036/summary.html. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
- ^ TV.com (1986-03-26). "Hill Street Blues - Season 6, Episode 21: Slum Enchanted Evening". TV.com. http://www.tv.com/hill-street-blues/slum-enchanted-evening/episode/52039/summary.html. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
- ^ TV.com (1986-10-16). "Hill Street Blues - Season 7, Episode 3: The Best Defense". TV.com. http://www.tv.com/hill-street-blues/the-best-defense/episode/52043/summary.html. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
- ^ TV.com (1986-11-26). "Hill Street Blues - Season 7, Episode 7: Amazing Grace". TV.com. http://www.tv.com/hill-street-blues/amazing-grace/episode/52047/summary.html. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
- ^ TV.com (1986-12-01). "Hill Street Blues - Season 7, Episode 8: Falling from Grace". TV.com. http://www.tv.com/hill-street-blues/falling-from-grace/episode/52048/summary.html. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
- ^ a b c d e f g h TV.com. "Miami Vice Episodes". TV.com. http://www.tv.com/miami-vice/show/544/episode_guide.html&printable=1. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
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External links
- Robert Wards official web site
- Interview with Robert Ward
- Recent review of Four Kinds of Rain
- Recent review of Red Baker
- 1985 Time Magazine review of Red Baker
- 1985 New York Times review of Red Baker
- 1981 New York Times review of the movie Cattle Annie and Little Britches
- Robert Ward at the Internet Movie Database
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