Hall, Oakley
HALL, Oakley
HALL, Oakley. Also writes as Jason Manor. American, b. 1920. Genres: Mystery/Crime/Suspense, Westerns/Adventure, Plays/Screenplays, Songs/Lyrics and libretti, Writing/Journalism. Career: University of California at Irvine, professor emeritus, 1990- (professor of English and director of Progs. in Writing, 1970-90). Squaw Valley Community of Writers, director, 1970-. Publications: (as O.M. Hall) Murder City, 1949; So Many Doors, 1950; Corpus of Joe Bailey, 1953; Mardios Beach, 1955; The Downhill Racers, 1963; The Pleasure Garden, 1966; A Game for Eagles, 1970; Report from Beau Harbor, 1971; Angle of Repose (opera), 1976; Lullaby, 1982; The Children of the Sun, 1983; The Art and Craft of Novel Writing, 1989; How Fiction Works, 2000. WESTERNS: Warlock, 1958; The Adelita, 1975; The Bad Lands, 1978; The Coming of the Kid, 1985; Apaches, 1986; Separations, 1997. MYSTERIES: Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades, 1998; Ambrose Bierce and the Death of Kings, 2001; Ambrose Bierce and the OneEyed Jacks, 2003; Ambrose Bierce and the Trey of Pearls, 2004. AS JASON MANOR: Too Dead to Run, 1953; The Red Jaguar, 1954, as The Girl in the Red Jaguar, 1955; The Pawns of Fear, 1955, as No Halo for Me, 1956; The Tramplers, 1956.