Biography
Darryl Ponicsan is an American author and screenwriter. He was born on 26 May 1938 in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. He attended Muhlenberg College and Cornell University, and worked as a high-school teacher and social worker before publishing his first novel, The Last Detail, in 1970.
Ponicsan wrote the screenplays for the films Taps (1981) and Vision Quest (1985). He has also written screenplays for Cinderella Liberty (1973), Nuts (1987), School Ties (1992) and Last Flag Flying (2017), the last of which he co-wrote with Richard Linklater. He has published several novels and writes mystery fiction under the pen name Anne Argula. He has collaborated frequently with director Harold Becker.
