Oakley M Hall

Oakley Hall is the author of more than twenty works of fiction, including "Warlock, Separations," and the "Ambrose Bierce mystery series," Hall is best known for "The Downhill Racer," basis for the 1969 Robert Redford film of the same name. Hall was the Director of Programs in Writing at the University of California at Irvine for twenty years. He is also director of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and, in 1998, received a PEN Center USA/West Award for lifetime literary achievement. He...See more

Oakley Hall is the author of more than twenty works of fiction, including "Warlock, Separations," and the "Ambrose Bierce mystery series," Hall is best known for "The Downhill Racer," basis for the 1969 Robert Redford film of the same name. Hall was the Director of Programs in Writing at the University of California at Irvine for twenty years. He is also director of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and, in 1998, received a PEN Center USA/West Award for lifetime literary achievement. He lives in San Francisco. See less