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John Baxter (author)

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John Baxter
Born (1939-12-14) 14 December 1939 (age 83)
Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAustralian
GenreNon-fiction

John Baxter (born 14 December 1939 in Randwick, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian-born writer, journalist, and film-maker.

Baxter has lived in Britain and the United States as well as in his native Sydney, but has lived in Paris since 1989, where he is married to the film-maker Marie-Dominique Montel. They have one daughter.

He began writing science fiction in the early 1960s for New Worlds, Science Fantasy and other British magazines. His first novel, though serialised in New Worlds as The God Killers, was published as a book in the US by Ace as The Off-Worlders. He was Visiting Professor at Hollins College in Virginia in 1975-1976. He has written a number of short stories and novels in that genre and a book about science fiction in the movies, as well as editing collections of Australian science fiction.[1]

Baxter has written other works dealing with the movies, including biographies of film personalities, including Federico Fellini, Luis Buñuel, Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, George Lucas and Robert De Niro. He has written a number of documentaries, including a survey of the life and work of the painter Fernando Botero. He also co-produced, wrote and presented three television series for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, Filmstruck, First Take and The Cutting Room, and was co-editor of the ABC book programme Books And Writing.

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.

Since 2007 he has been co-director of the annual Paris Writers Workshop.

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Publications

Novels

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

References

  1. ^ Clute, John and Nicholls, Peter (1995). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. St. Martin's Press. p. 98. ISBN 0-312-13486-X. Retrieved 30 April 2012.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ David Stratton The last new wave : the Australian film revival Sydney: Angus & Robertson 1980
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 August 2008. Retrieved 5 May 2008.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ John Baxter (2017). Eating Eternity: Food, Art, and Literature in France. New York City: Museyon. ISBN 978-1-940842-16-5.
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