Brian Francis Wynne Garfield (born January 26, 1939) is an American novelist and screenwriter. He wrote his first published book at the age of eighteen and wrote several novels under such
pen names as "Frank Wynne" and "'Brian Wynne" before gaining prominence when his book
Hopscotch (1975) won the 1976
Edgar Award for Best Novel. He is best known for his 1972 novel
Death Wish, which was adapted for the 1974
film of the same title, followed by four
sequels, and an upcoming remake. His follow-up 1975 sequel to Death Wish,
Death Sentence, was very loosely adapted into a
film of the same name which was released to theaters in late 2007, though an entirely different storyline, but with the novel's same look on vigilantism. Garfield is also the author of
The Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians, which was a finalist for the
Pulitzer Prize for History. Garfield's latest book, published in 2007, is
Meinertzhagen, the biography of controversial British intelligence officer
Richard Meinertzhagen. Garfield is the nephew of chorus dancer and stage manager
Chester O'Brien.