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Penelope Gilliatt

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Penelope Gilliatt was an English novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and film critic. As one of the main film critics for The New Yorker magazine in the 1960s and 1970s, Gilliatt was known for her detailed descriptions and evocative reviews. A writer of short stories, novels, non-fiction books, and screenplays, Gilliatt was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971).

Books

Unholy Fools; Wits, Comics, Disturbers of the Peace: Film & Theater
Unholy Fools; Wits, Comics, Disturbers of the Peace: Film & Theater
Penelope Gilliatt
Stories from the Transatlantic Review
Stories from the Transatlantic Review
Alan Sillitoe, Joyce Carol Oates, Leonard Michaels, John Banville, William Trevor, Paul Bowles, Bruce Jay Friedman, Jerome Charyn, William Goldman, Malcolm Bradbury, John Updike, John McPhee, Austin Clarke, Sol Yurick, Thomas Bridges, Jay Neugeboren, George Garrett, Daniel Spicehandler, Jean Claude Van Itallie, Penelope Gilliatt, Harry D. Miller, Alfred Chester, Victor Sawdon Pritchett, Frank Tuohy, Irvin Faust, Morris Lurie, Asa Baber, Paul Breslow, Hugh Allyn Hunt, Edward Franklin, Norma Meacock, Virginia Moriconi, Shirley Schoonover, Walter Clemons
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Penelope Gilliatt
The Cutting Edge
The Cutting Edge
Penelope Gilliatt
Come Back If it Doesn't Get Better
Come Back If it Doesn't Get Better
Penelope Gilliatt
What's it Like Out?
What's it Like Out?
Penelope Gilliatt

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