Book and author ID

[Orang Utan]

Hehe, no. Yours is tricky too.

 

[Dubversion]

mine's as easy as yours

 

[Orang Utan]

OK..
US born, Dulwich educated, Canadian soldier and crimewriter.

Damian Runyon?

 

[Dubversion]

nope. And not Damon Runyon either.

 

[souljacker]

OK..
US born, Dulwich educated, Canadian soldier and crimewriter.

Raymond Chandler

 

[souljacker]

Old bearded white haired geezer. Wrote a ludicrously far-fetched but controversial book a long time ago that people are still arguing about.

God?

 

[Dubversion]

bingo..

 

[souljacker]

Ex-Merchant Seaman who starting using smack after getting TB. Lived most of his life in Brooklyn.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Hubert Selby Jnr

 

[souljacker]

Hubert Selby Jnr

You win!

 

[littlebabyjesus]

He started writing in his 40s when he moved from New York to France, and was first published by a porno publisher.

 

[Dubversion]

Henry Miller

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Yep

 

[souljacker]

I was going to say Ian Fleming, purely on the basis that he did have some stuff puiblished in Playboy. But I dont think he ever lived in France.

 

[Orang Utan]

German born author known for zeitgeist and snappy titles

 

[Dirty Martini]

Ben Elton?

 

[Orang Utan]

Nope

 

[Dubversion]

German born author known for zeitgeist and snappy titles

Hesse?

 

[Dirty Martini]

"German-born" would suggest s/he's not regarded as German I think. This is bugging me. Someone British or American born on an army base?

 

[Sunspots]

German born author known for zeitgeist and snappy titles

Douglas Coupland, surely?

 

[Dirty Martini]

On the nail I think.

 

[Orang Utan]

Yep, be ashamed, Dub!

 

[Dirty Martini]

US professor of creative writing, writer of satirical short stories exclusively, set mostly in a near future of themeparks and twisted corporations. Contemporary.

 

[iguzza]

US professor of creative writing, writer of satirical short stories exclusively, set mostly in a near future of themeparks and twisted corporations. Contemporary.

George Saunders?

 

[Dirty Martini]

George Saunders?

Yep.

 

[jodal]

American writer of fiction and short stories. Shot himself with a shot gun.

 

[Dirty Martini]

Hemingway?

 

[jodal]

Hemingway?

Yep

 

[Dirty Martini]

My dad saw Hemingway driving through Pamplona in an old Fiat in 1960

 

[billy_bob]

My dad saw Hemingway driving through Pamplona in an old Fiat in 1960

That's one way to avoid getting gored by the bulls I suppose, but it doesn't really tally with his "man's man" image, does it....