Bari Wood
Born: 1936 in Jacksonville, Illinois
Pen Name: None Connection to Illinois: Wood was born in Jacksonville, Illinois and graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Biography: Wood was a writer. She worked as editor and bibliographer for the American Cancer Society and is a former editor for ''Drug Therapy'' magazine. She is also the author of three screenplays. Her book ''Twins'' was adapted into a film entitled ''Dead Ringers'' which was directed by David Cronenberg and starred Jeremy Irons and her book 'Doll's Eyes' was also adapted for the screen under the title, 'In Dreams'.
Awards:
- Putnam Prize, 1975, for The Killing Gift.
Selected Titles
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Amy girl ISBN: 0451400690 OCLC: 17609716 New American Library, New York : 1988, ©1987. |
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Amy girl / ISBN: 0453005349 OCLC: 14819219 New American Library, New York : ©1987. Eight-year-old Amy Kaslov is a pretty child who has been abused and seems helpless. But she has become the puppet of a terrifying power to make people do things whether they want to or not. |
| Dead ringers / ISBN: 0747404410 OCLC: 20417431 Sphere, London : 1988, ©1977. |
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Doll's eyes ISBN: 0380720973 OCLC: 31520561 Avon Books, New York : 1994, ©1993. |
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Doll's eyes / ISBN: 0688124402 OCLC: 27035061 Morrow, New York : ©1993. Eve Tilden Klein, a scion of an upstanding Connecticut family, finds that the clairvoyance she has inherited from her mother is more a curse than a blessing. |
| Lightsource / ISBN: 0453004563 OCLC: 10277881 New American Library, New York : ©1984. |
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| Lightsource. ISBN: 1853811858 OCLC: 21970004 Virago, 1990. |
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The basement / ISBN: 0688133517 OCLC: 30664984 Morrow, New York : ©1995. A swarm of bees stings a man to death, another is eaten alive by ticks. The victims have one thing in common, they offended Myra Ludens. Is she causing those deaths, or is she the conduit for Goody Redman, a witch hanged 300 years ago and buried under her house? The setting is Connecticut. |
| The killing gift ISBN: 0451073509 OCLC: 3151856 New American Library, New York : 1977, ©1975. |
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The killing gift : ISBN: 0399115625 OCLC: 2418682 Putnam, New York : 1975. The story of Dr. Jennifer List Gilbert, a very ordinary and lonely woman whose extraordinary and unwanted "gift" repulses all the other people in her life. It begins with a sociopathic intruder to the Gilbert home dying an inexplicable and painful death during a home invasion robbery. The story of the police officer trying to get to the bottom of the mysterious death is interwoven with the strange and sad life story of Dr. Gilbert. Scary, suspenseful, tragic... --rejii at Amazon.com. |
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The tribe ISBN: 9781933618777 OCLC: 697348839 Centipede Press, Lakewood, Colo. : 2010. What is the link between the Belzig Concentration Camp Jewish captives found alive in their powdery clay coated gray barracks, and the five teenagers who, 35 years later, are found hideously murdered in a powdery gray coated clubhouse after murdering a Rabbi's son? |
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The tribe / ISBN: 0453003931 OCLC: 6943403 New American Library, New York, N.Y. : ©1981. These survivors of the Holocaust now live with their secret in Brooklyn--a secret when unleashed creates havoc and hideous death. |