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Larry Beinhart

ラリー・ベインハート

Rarī Beinhāto

Profile

Gender
Male
Nationality
United States
Languages
English
Residence History
Woodstock, New York

Career

Occupations
Novelist, columnist, blogger
Active Years
1986-2022
Affiliations
Al Jazeera, AlterNet, HuffPost
Influenced By
George Bernard Shaw

Education

Wadham College, Oxford
Period: 2年間
Country: United Kingdom
Attended for two years, no degree mentioned

Awards

Edgar Award
1987
Work: No One Rides for Free
Category: Best First Novel
Organization: Mystery Writers of America
Result: Winner
Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship
Organization: Fulbright Program
Result: Recipient

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

American Hero (Wag the Dog)

1993 political thriller

Political and detective novel satirizing media and politics.

politicsmediawar
Adaptations
  • [Film] Wag the Dog / Barry Levinson (1997)

Salvation Boulevard

2008 satirical novel

Satire on religion and politics.

religionpolitics
Adaptations
  • [Film] Salvation Boulevard / George Ratliff (2011)

No One Rides for Free

1986 crime novel

First in the Tony Cassella series.

crimepolitics

Bibliography

  • No One Rides For Free (1986)
  • You Get What You Pay For (1988)
  • Foreign Exchange (1992)
  • American Hero (1993)
  • The Librarian (2004)
  • Salvation Boulevard (2008)
  • The Tony Cassella Mysteries (2013)
  • Zombie Pharm (2021)
  • The Deal Goes Down (2022)
  • How to Write a Mystery (1996)
  • Fog Facts: Searching for Truth in the Land of Spin (2005)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Creates dramas out of ideassatirical wit
Recurring Motifs
politicsmediainequalitymorality

Legacy

Renowned for political satire novels, especially American Hero adapted as Wag the Dog. Writes columns on US politics, economy, and inequality.

In Popular Culture

  • Wag the Dog film referenced during Clinton scandals.

Trivia

  • Avid skier and instructor at Hunter Mountain, New York.
  • Lives in Woodstock, NY with wife and two children.