Born and raised in Virginia, Duke Haney, aka Daryl Haney, has spent most of his adult life working in the movie business as an actor and screenwriter, with twenty feature-film credits as the former and twenty-two as the latter. He used pseudonyms for some of the screenplays and went by “D. R. Haney” as the author of Banned for Life, a novel, and Subversia, an essay collection. After he was struck by a car in a crosswalk on in Hollywood, a friend claimed he walked like John “Duke” Wayne and gave him the nickname by which most people know him and he has adopted belatedly as his pen name. He plans to follow his latest essay collection, Death Valley Superstars, with a novel tentatively titled XXX.

A few links:

Book trailer for Death Valley Superstars

Other People with Brad Listi podcast interview for Death Valley Superstars

Interview about Death Valley Superstars at Cease, Cows

Death Valley Superstars Book Notes/playlist at Largehearted Boy

Banned for Life Book Notes/playlist at Largehearted Boy

If My Book contribution to Monkeybicycle

Review of Banned for Life at The Next Best Book Blog

Interview at The Next Best Book Blog 4/10

Interview about Banned at The Nervous Breakdown 7/09

Piece in Tank magazine (UK) 1/2009

Reflections on William Faulkner at Three Guys One Book

Self-interview about rock & roll, movies, fame, and the writing process, among other matters