Gilmore, Christopher Cook; Where Madmen Dance aka The Bad Room A Screenplay Based on the Novel The Bad Room Published by Avon Books
, , 1992 ,
Overall Condition is: GOOD
continuation of title Note: There is no Turnaround on this Script Wolrd Rights Represented by: PMA Literary & Film Management, Inc. text is clean and bright, tight binding Christopher Cook Gilmore Local New Jersey legend dead at age 63 (August 3 1940 - June 29, 2004 He is survived by his wife, Anita, his mother Margot, a well-known Margate artist, and by his half-sisters Schulyar, Suzanne, and Victoria, Gilmore, who was descended from Captain James Cook on his mothers side and from poet Sidney Lanier (1842 - 1881) on his fathers, was a regular contributor to Atlantic City magazine, Editor to New Jersey magazine. His essays on aspects of South Jersey life were incisive in their depiction of sub-culture at the Jersey shore, and always glowed with the love Gilmore had for his native Margate. Books , Atlantic City Proof, was a textured and charming tale of a vanished Atlantic City, and in his two later novels, The Bad Room and Road Kills, he honed his writing style, influenced by favorites such as Hemingway and Kerouac, into a masterful verb-oriented precision. Gilmore also appeared to great advantage in a documentary film about George Whitman, owner of Shakespeare and Co. bookstore in Paris, where Christopher often stayed on his travels to and from Essaouira, Morocco, Often he would stop in Tangier and visit the great writer and composer Paul Bowles. He was South Jersey's most outstanding hobiecat racer, winning competitions into his early sixties, and A small wooden garvey, and recently he was interviewed on National Public Radio discussing boating, and the history of Absecon Island. A graduate of Atlantic City High, B.A. in Philosophy at the University of Miami, a lifeguard in Margate. He taught woodworking at St. Paul's School in London, Absecon High School,Ocean City High and Atlantic County Community College. In 2003, he represented the U.S. at the Swedish Academy's International Poetry Festival in Göteburg.
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