William Eastlake

William Eastlake
Born(1917-07-14)July 14, 1917
Brooklyn, New York
DiedJune 1, 1997(1997-06-01) (aged 79)
Bisbee, Arizona
Occupation
  • Writer
  • novelist
  • film director
  • screenwriter
GenreFiction

William Eastlake (July 14, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York – June 1, 1997 Bisbee, Arizona) was an American writer. His Checkerboard Trilogy, consisting of the works Go in Beauty (1956), The Bronc People (1958), and Portrait of an Artist with Twenty-Six Horses (1963) was included by literary critic Larry McCaffery in his list of the 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction.