John Baxter (author)
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John Baxter | |
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Born | Randwick, New South Wales, Australia | 14 December 1939
Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | Australian |
Genre | Non-fiction |
John Baxter (born 14 December 1939 in Randwick, New South Wales) is an Australian writer, journalist, and film-maker.
Baxter has lived in Britain and the United States as well as in his native Sydney. He has lived in Paris since 1989, where he is married to film-maker Marie-Dominique Montel. They have one daughter.
He began writing science fiction in the early 1960s for
Baxter has written other works dealing with the movies, including biographies of film personalities, including
In 1973 Baxter published the first critical account of the work of British film maker Ken Russell, An Appalling Talent. The book was based on an extended interview with the director and covers his work from Amelia and the Angel (1958) to The Boy Friend (1971), while observing the shooting of the film Savage Messiah (1973) and the state of the British film industry.
In the 1960s, he was a member of the WEA Film Study Group with such notable people as Ian Klava, Frank Moorhouse, Michael Thornhill,[2] John Flaus and Ken Quinnell. From July 1965 to December 1967 the WEA Film Study Group published the cinema journal FILM DIGEST. This journal was edited by John Baxter.
For a number of years in the sixties, he was active in the Sydney Film Festival, and during the 1980s served in a consulting capacity on a number of film-funding bodies, as well as writing film criticism for The Australian and other periodicals.[3] Some of his books have been translated into various languages, including Japanese and Chinese.
Since moving to Paris, he has written four books of autobiography, A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict, We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light, Immoveable feast : a Paris Christmas, and The Most Beautiful Walk in the World : a Pedestrian in Paris.[citation needed]
Since 2007, he has been co-director of the annual Paris Writers Workshop.[citation needed]
Publications
Novels
- The Black Yacht, 1982
- "Scorched" as "James Blackstone", pseudonym of Baxter and John Brosnan. (about spontaneous human combustion)
- Bidding
- The Hermes Fall, 1978 (about a possible collision of the asteroid Hermes and the earth)
- The Off-Worlders, 1966 (about a planet where superstition rules)
Edited collections
- The Second Pacific Book of Australian Science Fiction, 1971
- The Pacific Book of Australian Science Fiction, 1968
Nonfiction
- Of Love and Paris: Historic, Romantic and Obsessive Liaisons, 2023
- A Year in Paris, 2019
- Montmartre: Paris's Village of Art and Sin, 2017
- The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France, 2013
- Eating Eternity: Food, Art, and Literature in France, 2017 [4]
- Saint-Germain-des-Prés: Paris's Rebel Quarter, 2016
- French Riviera and Its Artists: Art, Literature, Love, and Life on Cote d'Azur, 2015
- Five Nights in Paris: After Dark in the City of Light, 2015
- The Golden Moments of Paris: A Guide to the Paris of the 1920s, 2014
- Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918, 2014
- The Inner Man: The Life of J. G. Ballard. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011
- Chronicles of Old Paris: Exploring the Historic City of Light, 2011
- The Most Beautiful Walk in the World : a Pedestrian in Paris, 2011
- Cooking for Claudine, 2011
- Immoveable feast : a Paris Christmas , 2008
- We'll Always Have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light, 2006
- A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict, 2002
- The Fire Came by: The Riddle of the Great Siberian Explosion, 1976
Film books
- John Baxter (1999). Mythmaker: The Life and Work of George Lucas. New York City: Spike Books. ISBN 0-380-97833-4.
- George Lucas: A Biography , 1999
- Woody Allen: A Biography, 1998
- Buñuel, 1998
- Stanley Kubrick: A Biography, 1997
- De Niro: A Biography, 2003
- Filmstruck: Australia at the Movies. , 1986
- The Hollywood Exiles, 1976
- King Vidor, 1976
- Stunt; the Story of the Great Movie Stunt Men , 1974
- Sixty Years of Hollywood, 1973
- An Appalling Talent: Ken Russell, 1973
- The Cinema of Josef von Sternberg, 1971
- The Australian Cinema, 1970
- Science Fiction in the Cinema, 1970
- Hollywood in the Thirties, 1968
- Hollywood in the Sixties, 1972
Filmography
- The Time Guardian, 1987
External links
- http://sites.google.com/site/johnbaxterparis/
- Online Bibliography at the Chozenbooks Website at the Wayback Machine (archived 21 February 2007)
- http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/john-baxter/
References
- ISBN 0-312-13486-X. Retrieved 30 April 2012.)
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - ^ David Stratton The last new wave : the Australian film revival Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1980
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 August 2008. Retrieved 5 May 2008.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ISBN 978-1-940842-16-5.