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Charles Elgin Alverson (October 13, 1935 - Los Angeles, California) is a novelist, editor and screenwriter who has sometimes used the byline Chuck Alverson. He co-scripted the film ''Jabberwocky'' (1977). Alverson grew up in Los Angeles County, and graduated in 1953 from high school in Redondo Beach. After service in the 11th and 82nd Airborne divisions of the U.S. Army, he graduated from San Francisco State College (English, 1960) and Columbia University (Journalism, 1963). In the early 1960s Alverson was an assistant editor (under Harvey Kurtzman) of ''Help!'' and then a reporter for ''The Wall Street Journal''. During a break from the ''WSJ'' in 1967, he was a "square" (or non-addicted) resident of the anti-drug cult Synanon in Santa Monica, California, for six months. After moving to Britain in 1969, he wrote for ''Rolling Stone'' and British newspapers. In 1980, Alverson was managing editor of the British environmentalist magazine ''Vole'', financed by Terry Jones of Monty Python. He was also founding editor of ''Insight'' (1981) and ''GIS Europe'' (1992). After living in Radnorshire, mid-Wales from 1970 to 1975, Alverson moved to Cambridge, England, where he was an activist, including a month-long vigil against the United States’s bombing of Iraq in 1990 and resistance to Margaret Thatcher’s poll tax. He was arrested twice but was not charged. ==Films and books== Alverson was co-screenwriter of Terry Gilliam's film ''Jabberwocky'', and co-developer of the story and co-writer (uncredited) of the first draft of the screenplay that became ''Brazil'' (1985). Alverson has written a dozen novels (four of which have been published in six languages), including the thriller ''Fighting Back'' (1973). In ''Goodey's Last Stand'' (1975) he introduced San Francisco private eye Joe Goodey, who returned in ''Not Sleeping Just Dead'' (1977). ''The New Yorker'' described ''Goodey's Last Stand'' as "the next best thing to finding a new and unsuspected Raymond Chandler phantasmagoria.”〔 In the crime fiction bibliography, Golden Gate Mysteries, Randal Brandt reviewed: :Joe Goodey is a San Francisco shamus who appeared in two novels by Charles Alverson. Jonah Webster “Joe” Goodey makes his debut in ''Goodey’s Last Stand'' (1975). He is a San Francisco homicide detective whose career is cut short when he mistakes the mayor’s cousin for a gunman and shoots him. Goodey is then told, in no uncertain terms, to either resign and get the hell out of town, or face charges for attempted murder. Maybe, after things cool down, he can return to the city and get a private investigator’s license. His exile from San Francisco is short-lived, however, when he is called back to the city to investigate the murder of a popular North Beach stripper named Tina D’Oro, who also happened to be a special friend of the mayor’s. In ''Not Sleeping, Just Dead'' (1977), Goodey is hired to investigate the mysterious death of a young woman at a Monterey County commune/rehab clinic called The Institute. Goodey is a wisecracker who would never be accused of having enlightened views about women or minorities, but he is honest and a basically decent guy.〔(Brandt, Randal. Golden Gate Mysteries: A Bibliography of Crime Fiction Set in the San Francisco Bay Area )〕 Alverson's credits also include children’s books, short stories and short film scripts, some of which have recently been adapted to comics by the cartoonist John Linton Roberson, including ''Rapunzel'' and the parody ''the Story of OH!''〔("The Story of OH!"(2007) by Charles Alverson & JLRoberson (complete) ),〕〔("Rapunzel"(2003) by Charles Alverson & John Linton Roberson (originally in "Working For The Man") ),〕 Alverson currently lives in the village of Parage in northwestern Serbia〔http://www.vreme.com/cms/view.php?id=295392〕 with his wife, Zivana. 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「Charles Alverson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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