Hal Bennett

Hal Bennett
Bennett author photo from the sleeve of Wait Until The Evening
Occupation	writer
Nationality	United States

Hal Bennett, born George Harold Bennett (1936 – 2004),^[1][2] was an author known for a variety of books. His 1974 novel Lord of Dark Places was described as "a satirical and all but scatological attack on the phallic myth",^[3] and was reprinted in 1997. He was Playboy's most promising writer of the year . He has also written under the pen names Harriet Janeway and John D. Revere (the Assassin series). His books are sometimes compared to Mark Twain's style of satire, but contain a much stronger sexual tone.

Awards and honors

• 1973 William Faulkner Prize

Selected bibliography

^[4]

• The Mexico City Poems and House on Hay (Chicago: Obsidian Press, 1961)
• A Wilderness of Vines (Garden City: Doubleday, 1966)
• The Black Wine (Garden City: Doubleday, 1968)
• Lord of Dark Places (New York: Norton, 1970) (ISBN 1885983123) (ISBN 9781885983121)
• Wait Until the Evening (Garden City: Doubleday, 1974) (ISBN 0385010222) (ISBN 9780385010221)
• Seventh Heaven (Garden City: Doubleday, 1976) (ISBN 0385066597) (ISBN 9780385066594)
• Insanity Runs In Our Family: Short Stories (Garden City: Doubleday, 1977)(ISBN 0385066643) (ISBN 9780385066648)

as Harriet Janeway

• This Passionate Land (1979)^[5]

as John D. Revere

• Justin Perry : The Assassin^[6]
• The Assassin 2 : Vatican Kill
• The Assassin 3 : Born To Kill
• The Assassin 4: Death's Running Mate
• The Assassin 5: Stud Service

Autobiography

• The Visible Man (1991)

References

1. The New Jersey Star-Ledger, Newark, September 11, 2004.
2. The Hal Bennett collection in the Contemporary Collections at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University
3. http://books.google.com/books?id=cToDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA79&dq=hal+bennett+lord+dark+places&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5-PjUI_WIe6O0QHBjICQBg&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=hal%20bennett%20lord%20dark%20places&f=false
4. Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook (Hardcover) by Emmanuel S. Nelson (Editor)
5. http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=60&ti=51,60&Search_Arg=janeway&Search_Code=NALL&CNT=25&PID=b9RBR8EAxfJb3VlFfozBiBk5&SEQ=20100608193338&SID=2
6. http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=3&ti=1,3&Search_Arg=bennett,%20hal&Search_Code=NALL&CNT=25&PID=zQCnwwgGIwZQNDcKl6nIdmPpg&SEQ=20100608210321&SID=1