Barry Gifford’s fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have been published in twenty-eight languages. "The Wicked of the Earth" is an excerpt from The Roy Stories, to be published October 2012 by Seven Stories Press/Random House. Gifford's books Sailor’s Holiday (Random House, 1991) and The Phantom Father (Harcourt Brace, 1997) were each named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times, and his book Wyoming (Arcade Publishing, 2000) was named a Novel of the Year by the Los Angeles Times. His film credits include Wild at Heart, Perdita Durango, Lost Highway, City of Ghosts, Ball Lightning, and The Phantom Father. Barry Gifford’s most recent books are Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels (Seven Stories Press, 2010) and Sad Stories of the Death of Kings (Seven Stories Press, 2010). He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information, visit www.BarryGifford.com.