R.I.P.: Oakley Hall (1920-2008)

From The New York Times: "Oakley Hall, the author of the novels Warlock and The Downhill Racers and a literary heir to fellow California writers like Wallace Stegner, died Monday at his home in Nevada City, Calif. He was 87 and lived in Nevada City, Squaw Valley and San Francisco... Mr. Hall, who began his career writing tightly constructed mystery novels, produced a steady stream of works, most set in the American West, of which the best known is Warlock (1958), a fictional reimagining of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Called 'one of our best American novels' in a Holiday magazine review by Thomas Pynchon, it was made into a film of the same name with Richard Widmark and Henry Fonda." There's more on Hall here and here.