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Daniel Woodrell, who coined the term “country noir” to describe his subgenre of desperate circumstances in rural America, has died. He was 72 years old. His wife Kathy Estill-Woodrel said New York Time that he died at their home in West Plains, Missouri. Woodrell was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Previously, in the 2010s, he had colon cancer, which went into remission. Woodrell wrote winter bone in 2006 about a teenage girl in the Missouri Ozarks searching for her missing father. The 2010 film adaptation launched Jennifer Lawrence's career.
Woodrell was born in Springfield, Missouri in 1953. He joined the Marines after dropping out of high school. “At that age, I never questioned the fact that if there was a war, I would be expected to go to it. It just didn't come up in my family,” he said. Guernica in 2013. “It was only after I joined that I started hearing opposing opinions. That was the most explosive part of my life. All these ideas were new to me. I had never heard of pacifism. I didn't know about the idea of challenging your government. I knew you could do it if you wanted to be a criminal, but I didn't know you could do it for moral reasons. I found out.”
Woodrell received a bachelor's degree from the University of Kansas and a master's degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Around the same time, he met Estill-Woodrell. They eventually settled in the Ozarks. Woodrell published his first novel. Under the bright light in 1986. His book was published in 1999 Woe to live on was adapted into Ride with the Devil Ang Lee. winter bone then 2010 came and Red tomato 2017. On 2011 Academy Awards, winter bone was nominated in four categories, including Best Picture, Best Actress (Jennifer Lawrence) and Best Supporting Actor (Jennifer Lawrence). John Hawkes.
Jennifer Lawrence told Vulture in 2010 that director Debra Granik gave out “hundreds of copies” of Woodrell's book during the location shoot, “so they would understand that we weren't there to make fun of them or portray them in a negative light. Essentially, we were making a movie about the girl who lives there. When you think about it, the movie doesn't actually turn these characters into heroes or villains. It's just the truth.”
