Darryl Ponicsan

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Darryl Ponicsan ( pronounced PAHN-i-son ) (born May 26, 1938) is an American writer.

Ponicsan is best known as the author of the 1971 novel The Last Detail, which was adapted into a 1973 movie starring Jack Nicholson; and for the 1973 novel and screenplay Cinderella Liberty, starring James Caan.

He was born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, the son of Frank G., a merchant, and Anne Kuleck. He attended Muhlenberg College, (A.B., 1959) and Cornell University, (M.A., 1965).

He was teacher of English at a high school in Owego, New York, 1959-62; a social worker for Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California in 1965, and teacher of English in California from 1966-69.

Ponicsan also wrote the screenplays for the CBS movie A Girl Called Hatter Fox (1977), the movies Taps (1981), Vision Quest (1985), Nuts (1987), The Boost (1988), School Ties (1992), the HBO movie The Enemy Within (1992), and the CBS series The Mississippi (1983).

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The Last Detail, novel (New York: Dial Press, 1970)
Goldengrove, novel (New York: Dial Press, 1971)
Andoshen, Pa., novel (New York: Dial Press, 1973)
Cinderella Liberty , novel (New York: Harper and Row, 1973)
Tom Mix Died for Your Sins, novel (New York: Delacorte Press 1975)
The Accomplice, novel (New York: Harper and Row, 1975)
The Ringmaster, novel (New York: Delacorte Press 1978)
An Unmarried Man, novel (New York: Delacorte Press 1980)
Homicide My Own, novel under the pseudonym Anne Argula (New York: Pleasure Boat Studio, 2005)
Walla Walla Suite: A Room with No View, novel under the pseudonym Anne Argula (New York: Ballentine, 2007)