Death Wish author Brian Garfield dies

Death Wish author Brian Garfield has died at the age of 79.
The writer, born Brian Francis Wynne Garfield, passed away at his home in Pasadena, California on 29 December (18), reports Variety.
Garfield enjoyed a brief stint in music with the jazz/rock group the Palisades in the 1950s, before beginning his literary career at the age of 18, penning his first novel, Range Justice, in 1960 and going on to write books like The Big Snow, The Rimfire Murders, Dragoon Pass, and Call Me Hazard under a series of pen names, mostly using variations of his middle names.
However, he will perhaps be best remembered for his 1972 release Death Wish, which was turned into a movie of the same name in 1974, starring Charles Bronson as vigilante Paul Kersey and directed by Michael Winner.
Disappointed by the big screen adaptation, Garfield put pen to paper to write a sequel to his book, 1975’s Death Sequence, which later inspired a 2007 film version.
The original Deathwish was also remade last year (18) with Bruce Willis taking over the lead role.
Garfield also adapted his 1975 book Hopscotch for Hollywood, as well as Gun Down, which was turned into 1976 film The Last Hard Men.