Clancy Carlile

At 68 years old, Clancy Carlile physical status not available right now. We will update Clancy Carlile's height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, and measurements.

Clancy Carlile (January 18, 1930-1998) was an American novelist and screenwriter of Cherokee descent.

He is perhaps best known for his 1980 book Honkytonk Man, which Clint Eastwood made into a film.

Early years

Carlile was born in Oklahoma's tribal jurisdiction, and his father, Cherokee, was born. He had a "erratic childhood" and moved to Texas at a young age. Carlile was a high school dropout. He worked as a cotton picker until his family moved to California to pick fruit. He served in the army during the Korean War and then was honorably discharged, earning a master's degree at San Francisco State University.

Personal life

Carlile spent a large portion of his later life in Austin, Texas, where he had a writing fellowship at the University of Texas. Steven and four grandchildren were among Carlile's children. On June 4, 1998, he died in Austin at the age of 68.

Source

Career

Carlile began writing in the early 1960s and wrote his first book, titled Certainly As I Was Young and Easy (1958), which was published in just 17 days. Spore 7 (1979), which was followed by Spore 7 (1979). Carlile wrote both the book and the screenplay in Honkytonk Man (1980), the story of a country singer's life and death that was turned into a Clint Eastwood film in which Eastwood also appeared. Sidney Poitier's last book, Children of the Dust (1995), about the settling of Oklahoma, was turned into a CBS mini-series. This book is related to the author's roots, since he hails from the Oklahoma Territory. The tale is set in the late 1880s, with Gypsy Smith (Poitier) being a gunlinger of African American and Cherokee descent who assists African American homesteaders in settling the territory under the specter of white people. In 1999, the Paris Pilgrims was published posthumously. The Paris Pilgrims combines "memoirs, biographies, and fantasy" with Carlile's imagination to create a "quasifictional history" of famous US expatriates in 1920s Paris. The Paris Pilgrims features US writer Ernest Hemingway, as well as other public figures, "which includes everyone from Ezra Pound to Sylvia Beach to Lincoln Steffens to Picasso, Braque, Gide, and Cole Porter."

Carlile was also a guitarist, singer, and producer who performed guitar and sang, as well as with members of the Grateful Dead. He is credited with the creation and lyrics of a song "I'm a Lovin' Man"; the 1970 album includes Carlile and possibly vocals from Bob Weir. Carlile also appears on "Crash and Poverty," a 1972 LP release from The Country in Prosperity and Poverty, as well as vocals, research, and arrangement for Settling the West.

Source