Biography
William Hjortsberg, also known as Gatz Hjortsberg, was an American novelist and screenwriter. He wrote the screenplay for the 1985 fantasy film Legend, directed by Ridley Scott.
His novel Falling Angel (1978) formed the basis for the 1987 film Angel Heart. Hjortsberg was born in New York City on 23 February 1941 and died in Livingston, Montana, on 22 April 2017. He attended Dartmouth College and the Yale School of Drama, where he met the writer Thomas McGuane, and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He lived for many years in Montana and published ten books, including the 2012 biography Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan.
