William Kotzwinkle
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William Kotzwinkle (born 1943) is an author and screenwriter. He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. His most popular works to date include the novelization of E.T. the Extra Terrestrial (on which he collaborated with Melissa Mathison, the original screenplay writer, this book contains details behind the story of E.T. not shown in the film) and The Bear Went Over the Mountain.
He has won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel for Doctor Rat in 1977, and has also won the National Magazine Award for fiction. The most comprehensive critical study of Kotzwinkle's works is Leon Lewis' "Eccentric Individuality in William Kotzwinkle's "The Fan Man", "E.T.", "Doctor Rat" and Other Works of Fiction and Fantasy" (2002).
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[edit] Series
E.T. the Extra Terrestrial series
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) (with Melissa Mathison)
- E.T. the Book of the Green Planet (1985)
Walter the Farting Dog series (with Glenn Murray & illustrations by Audrey Colman)
- Walter the Farting Dog (2001) ISBN 1-583-94053-7 (Some versions come with a bonus stuffed animal of Walter that "farts" when you squeeze it)
- Walter the Farting Dog: Trouble at the Yard Sale (2004) ISBN 0-525-47217-7 (this book has also been released as Walter the Farting Dog Farts Again)
- Rough Weather Ahead for Walter the Farting Dog (2005) ISBN 0-525-47218-5
- Walter the Farting Dog goes on a Cruise (2006) ISBN 0-525-47714-4
- Walter The Farting Dog: Banned From the Beach (June 21, 2007) ISBN 0-525-47812-4 (co-written with Elizabeth Gundy)
- Walter, Canis Inflatus (2004) ISBN 1-583-94110-X
[edit] Novels
- The Firemen (1969)
- Elephant Boy: A Story of the Stone Age (1970)
- The Day the Gang Got Rich (1970)
- The Ship That Came Down The Gutter (1970)
- The Return of Crazy Horse (1971)
- Hermes 3000 (1972)
- The Supreme, Superb, Exalted and Delightful, One and Only Magic Building (1973)
- The Fan Man (1974)
- Night Book (1974)
- Up the Alley with Jack and Joe (1974)
- Swimmer in the Secret Sea (1975)
- Doctor Rat (1976)
- The Leopard's Tooth (1976)
- Fata Morgana (1977)
- The Ants Who Took Away Time (1978)
- Herr Nightingale And the Satin Woman (1978)
- Dream of Dark Harbor: A Ghostly Sea Story (1979)
- The Nap Master (1979)
- Jack in the Box (1980) (eventually re-titled as Book of Love to coincide with the movie)
- Christmas at Fontaine's (1982)
- Superman III (1983)
- Great World Circus (1983)
- Queen of Swords (1983)
- Seduction in Berlin (1985)
- Jewel of the Moon (1985)
- The World Is Big and I'm So Small (1986)
- The Exile (1987)
- The Midnight Examiner (1989)
- The Game of Thirty (1994)
- The Million-Dollar Bear (1995)
- The Bear Went Over the Mountain (1996)
- The Amphora Project (2005)
- Rough Weather Ahead for Walter the Farting Dog (2006)
[edit] Collections
- Elephant Bangs Train (1971)
- The Oldest Man: And Other Timeless Stories (1971)
- Trouble in Bugland: A Collection of Inspector Mantis Mysteries (1983)
- Hearts of Wood: And Other Timeless Tales (1986)
- The Hot Jazz Trio (1989)
- Tales from the Empty Notebook (1995)
[edit] Anthologies containing stories by William Kotzwinkle
- The Year's Best Fantasy Second Annual Collection (a.k.a. Demons and Dreams) (1989)
- Great Esquire Fiction (1983)
[edit] Short stories
- "The Curio Shop" (1980)
- "Fragments of Papyrus from the Temple of the Older Gods" (1988)
- "Blues on the Nile: A Fragment of Papyrus" (1989)
- "Boxcar Blues" (1989)
- "Django Reinhardt Played the Blues" (1989)
- "Horse Badorties Goes Out" (1973)
[edit] Screenplays
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) (original story)
- Book of Love (1990) (adapted from his novel Jack in the Box)
