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Rudolph "Rudy" Wurlitzer (born 1937) is an American novelist and screenwriter. His fiction includes Nog, Flats, Quake, and Slow Fade. He also wrote a non-fiction book, Hard Travel to Sacred Places, an account of his spiritual journey through Asia after the death of his 21-year-old son.

Wurlitzer was born in Texas. He has claimed that he never had the chance to enjoy the fortune created by the Wurlitzer music empire, as his father spent it. His 1969 debut novel, Nog, was acclaimed by Thomas Pynchon and was followed by Flats in 1970 and Quake, which imagines Hollywood struck by a major earthquake. 1984's Slow Fade, also dealing with Hollywood, is a portrait of an ageing, once-brilliant film director attempting to make peace with his demons and his past.

Among his many screenplays are:

  • Glen & Randa (directed by Jim McBride), 1969
  • Two-Lane Blacktop (directed by Monte Hellman), 1971
  • Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (directed by Sam Peckinpah), 1973
  • Walker (directed by Alex Cox), 1987
  • Candy Mountain (co-directed by Robert Frank and Rudy Wurlitzer), 1988
  • Homo Faber (aka Voyager) (directed by Volker Schlöndorff), 1991
  • Wind (directed by Carroll Ballard), 1992
  • Little Buddha (directed by Bernardo Bertolucci), 1993
He wrote the libretto for Philip Glass' opera In The Penal Colony, and has also written four TV scripts for 100 Centre Street, directed by Sidney Lumet.

His latest novel is The Drop Edge of Yonder, released spring 2008 from Two Dollar Radio. The book is based on Wurlitzer's unproduced screenplay Zebulon, which served as the inspiration for Jim Jarmusch's film Dead Man.
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Total Books: 8
Nog
1999 - Nog (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781566491150
ISBN-10: 1566491150
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Quake
1999 - Quake (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781566491167
ISBN-10: 1566491169
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Flats
1999 - Flats (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781566491174
ISBN-10: 1566491177
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Walker
1988 - Walker (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780060551223
ISBN-10: 0060551224
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, History
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Walker The True Story of the First American Invasion of Nicaragua
Historic Hudson An Architectural Portrait
Historic Hudson an Architectural Portrait (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781883789466
ISBN-10: 188378946X
Genres: History, Engineering & Transportation
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