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Oakley Hall

Biography

Oakley Hall

An acclaimed novelist whose most famous work, the Western WARLOCK, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Oakley Hall was also a revered writing instructor whose students included Michael Chabon, Anne Rice, Amy Tan and Richard Ford. Two of his novels were made into movies: Warlock starring Henry Fonda and Anthony Quinn, and Downhill Racers starring Robert Redford. Hall received lifetime achievement awards from the PEN American Center and the Cowboy Hall of Fame, and served as a Marine in World War II.

Oakley Hall

Books by Oakley Hall

So Many Doors
by Oakley Hall - Fiction, Hard-boiled Mystery, Mystery

It begins on Death Row, with a condemned man refusing the services of the lawyer assigned to defend him. It begins with a beautiful woman dead, murdered --- Vassilia Caroline Baird, known to all simply as V. But the story this novel tells begins years earlier, on a struggling farm in the shadow of the Great Depression and among the brawling "cat skinners" of Southern California, driving graders and bulldozers to tame the American West. And the story that unfolds is a lyrical outpouring of hunger and grief, of jealousy and corruption, of raw sexual yearning and the tragedy of the destroyed lives it leaves in its wake.