In 1957, Carpenter enrolled in San Francisco State College and received an M.A. when he graduated in 1961.
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 the corridors of power and ego in Hollywood.
Hard Rain Falling
Blade of Light
The Murder of the Frogs and Other Stories
Getting Off
When Carpenter was 16, h...