Don Carpenter

Don Carpenter was an American writer, best known as the author of Hard Rain Falling. He wrote numerous novels, novellas, short stories and screenplays over the course of a 22-year career that took him from a childhood in Berkeley, California and the Pacific Northwest to Hollywood. A close observer of human frailty, his writing depicted marginal characters like pool sharks, prisoners, and drug dealers, as well as movie moguls and struggling actors.

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