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Campbell Armstrong (25 February 1944 – 1 March 2013) was born Thomas Campbell Black and was a Scottish author who graduated with a degree in Philosophy from the University of Sussex, England. He taught creative writing from 1971 to 1974 at the State University of New York at Oswego; from 1975 to 1978 he taught at Arizona State University. He worked for some years as a fiction editor with various London publishing houses. After living for many years in England and the United States, he moved to Shannon Harbour, Ireland. He died on 1 March 2013, four days after his 69th birthday. His novels ''Assassins & Victims'' and ''The Punctual Rape'' won Scottish Arts Council Awards. ''The Last Darkness'' and ''White Rage'' were nominated for the Prix du Polar. His quartet of Glasgow novels consists of ''The Bad Fire'', ''The Last Darkness'', ''White Rage'', and ''Butcher''. He also wrote a memoir titled ''All That Really Matters'', retitled in the United States as ''I Hope You Have a Good Life''. His work has mainly been influenced by R L Stevenson and he ascribes a certain 'dark apect' of his writing to the opening scenes of Treasure Island. Among other influences he included Kafka, Fred Vargas, Kobo Abe and Camus. His books have been translated into French, German, Greek, Japanese, Italian, Hebrew and Polish. ==Bibliography== # ''Assassins & Victims'' (1969) # ''The Punctual Rape'' (1970) # ''Death's Head'' (1971) # ''Asterisk'' (1976) # ''Brainfire'' (1977) # ''The Wanting'' (1978) # ''Mr. Apology'' (1979) # ''Letters from the Dead'' (1980) # ''Dressed to Kill'' (Based on movie script) (1980) # ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' (Novelization) (1981) # ''Jig'' (1987) # ''Mazurka'' (1988) # ''Mambo'' (1989) # ''Agents of Darkness'' (1991) # ''Concert of Ghosts'' (1992) # ''Jigsaw'' (1994) # ''Heat'' (1996) # ''Blackout'' (1996) # ''Silencer'' (1997) # ''Deadline'' (2000) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Campbell Armstrong」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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