Brian Francis Wynne Garfield (January 26, 1939 – December 29, 2018) was an Edgar Award-winning American novelist, historian and screenwriter.
[3] Garfield went on to author more than seventy books across a variety of genres, selling more than twenty million copies worldwide.
[5] He was the nephew of chorus dancer and stage manager Chester O'Brien, and a distant relative of Mark Twain.
[6] A guitarist, in the 1950s Garfield toured with a band called the Palisades, who released a single on the Calico label.
Garfield wrote the screenplay for the 1980 film adaptation starring Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson and Sam Waterston.
He and his wife Bina divided their time between their homes in Pasadena, California, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
[9][6] John Grisham credited Garfield’s article "Ten Rules for Suspense Fiction" with "giving him the tools" to write his thrillers.