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Bari Wood

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Bari Wood
BornBari Eve Prosterman
(1936-12-31) December 31, 1936 (age 87)
Jacksonville, Illinois
OccupationAuthor
NationalityAmerican
Alma materNorthwestern University
GenreSuspense, science fiction, horror
Notable worksThe Killing Gift
SpouseGilbert Congdon Wood
Dennis Preston Kazee

Bari Wood (born December 31, 1936) is an American author of science fiction, crime and horror novels.

Life and work

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Wood was born in 1936 in Jacksonville, Illinois, the daughter of Israel S. Prosterman and Gertrude Ritman. She grew up in and around Chicago, and graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois with a degree in English. She moved to New York in 1957, where she first worked in the library of the American Cancer Society, later as editor of the society's publication, CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians[1] and of the medical journal Drug Therapy. In the early 1970s she began writing fiction.

In New York she fell in love with and married Dr. Gilbert Congdon Wood (b. 1915 – d. 2000), a biologist for the American Cancer Society. In 1981 they moved to a farmhouse in Ridgefield, Connecticut.[2] In 2008, she married Dennis Preston Kazee and moved to Lansing, Michigan.

Wood wrote her first novel, The Killing Gift, in 1975. It won the Putnam Prize for high-quality novels.[3] It was followed by Twins, co-written with Jack Geasland in 1977. In 1988 the novel was adapted into a film under the title Dead Ringers with Jeremy Irons in the eponymous lead roles. Her 1993 novel Doll's Eyes was adapted into a film titled In Dreams in 1999.

Fiction

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Year Title Notes
1975 The Killing Gift
1977 Twins with Jack Geasland (re-released in 1988 as Dead Ringers)
1981 The Tribe
1984 Lightsource
1986 Amy Girl
1993 Doll's Eyes
1995 The Basement

Films and television

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Year Title Notes
1988 Dead Ringers Directed by David Cronenberg. Based on Twins aka Dead Ringers.[4]
1999 In Dreams Directed by Neil Jordan. Based on Doll's Eyes[5]
2023 Dead Ringers Prime Video. Based on Twins[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ "Who's Who in Ridgefield CT S-Z". jackfsanders.tripod.com. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
  2. ^ "Who's Who in Ridgefield CT S-Z". tripod.com.
  3. ^ The Bowker annual of library and book trade information, vol. 21, New York, NY: R.R. Bowker, 1976, p. 430.
  4. ^ Rosenberg, Josh (April 21, 2023). "The True Story of 'Dead Ringers'". Esquire. Retrieved May 18, 2023.
  5. ^ Indick, William (18 October 2013). Psycho Thrillers: Cinematic Explorations of the Mysteries of the Mind. McFarland. p. 115. ISBN 978-1-4766-0876-1.
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