BAXTER, John

BAXTER, John. Australian, b. 1939. Genres: Novels, Science fiction/Fantasy, Film, Biography. Career: Director of Publicity, Australian Commonwealth Film Unit., Sydney, 1968-70; Lecturer in Film and Theatre, Hollins Coll, 1974-78; freelance TV producer and screenwriter, 1978-87; Visiting Lecturer, Mitchell College, Australia, 1987; freelance journalist and broadcaster, Paris and Los Angeles, 1989-. Publications: The Off Worlders, 1966, in Australia as The God Killers, 1968; (adaptor) Adam's Woman, 1968; Hollywood in the Thirties, 1968; (ed.) The Pacific Book of Australian Science Fiction, 1970; The Australian Cinema, 1970; Science Fiction in the Cinema, 1970; The Gangster Film, 1970; The Cinema of Josef von Sternberg, 1971; The Cinema of John Ford, 1971; (ed.) The Second Pacific Book of Australian Science Fiction, 1971; Hollywood in the Sixties, 1972; Sixty Years of Hollywood, 1973; An Appalling Talent: Ken Russell, 1973; Stunt: The Story of the Great Movie Stunt Men, 1974; The Hollywood Exiles, 1976; (with T.R. Atkins) The Fire Came By, 1976; King Vidor, 1976; The Hermes Fall, 1978; The Bidders (in U.K. as Bidding), 1979; The Kid, 1981; (with B. Norris) The Video Handbook, 1982; The Black Yacht, 1982; Who Burned Australia? The Ash Wednesday Fires, 1984; Filmstruck, 1987; The Time Guardian (screenplay), 1988; Bondi Blues, 1992; Fellini, 1993; Bunuel, 1994; Steven Spielberg: The Unauthorized Biography, 1996; Woody Allen, 1998; George Lucas, 1999. Address: Curtis Brown, 28/29 Haymarket, London SW1Y 4SP, England.