[1] The film adaptation of the same title, directed by Edward Dmytryk, starred Henry Fonda, Richard Widmark and Anthony Quinn.
[5] After the death of Wallace Stegner, Hall was considered the dean of West Coast writers, having supported the early careers of novelists such as Richard Ford and Michael Chabon, both graduates of the well-known writing program at the University of California, Irvine, where Hall taught for many years, and Amy Tan, his student from The Community of Writers at Squaw Valley.
They had four children: Brett Hall Jones, director of the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, the writers’ conference that Oakley Hall helped found in 1969; Sands Hall, a teacher, actor, director, and novelist (Catching Heaven, 2000, and Tools of the Writer’s Craft, 2005);[2] Tracy, a schoolteacher; and Oakley "Tad" Hall III, the author of the play Grinder’s Stand,[4] whose tragic fall from a bridge and the brain damage suffered from this fall are documented in Bill Rose's film The Loss of Nameless Things.
[2] Among his many honors are lifetime achievement awards from the PEN American Center and the Cowboy Hall of Fame.
SF Chronicle Datebook 2021-01-27, Anderson, Scott Thomas: “Unraveling the Mysteries of San Francisco with the writer who brought Ambrose Bierce back to life” Reflections on the scope of work and influence of Oakley Hall