Charles Alverson
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Charles Elgin Alverson is a novelist, editor and screenwriter. He co-scripted the film Jabberwocky (1977) with director Terry Gilliam.
Alverson was born in 1935 in Los Angeles, California. 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 Ocean Beach, 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 active in rabble-rousing activities, including resistance to the Duke of Westminster’s rape of Cambridge's Kite area. He also was the moving force behind a month-long vigil in protest of the United States’s bombing of Iraq in 1990 and took part in resistance to Margaret Thatcher’s poll tax. He was arrested twice but never indicted.
[edit] Films and books
In addition to working as a journalist and editor, he also was co-screenwriter of Terry Gilliam's film Jabberwocky, and also co-developer of the story and co-writer (uncredited) of the first draft of the screenplay that became the acclaimed dystopian film Brazil.
Alverson has written a dozen novels, four of which have been published in six languages, two children’s books, short stories and short film scripts, some of which have recently been adapted by John Linton Roberson. Alverson currently resides in village Parage, Backa region of Vojvodina, Serbia with his wife, Zivana.
[edit] References
- ^ Brazil (The Evolution of the 54th Best British Film Ever Made). Orion books Ltd, 2001, edited by Bob McCabe. ISBN 0-7528-3792-3
