
06/24/2025
“Bridges’s bibliography was so inconsistent that I couldn’t even begin to estimate what he’d written, much less assess when, where, how, or why he’d written it. Obviously, Bridges was all about his thrillers, but his earlier writings also had to be put into play to gain any real understanding of the author. Trying to find his short stories, poems, and plays would be hard enough…perhaps as many as 45 books, incorporating nonfiction, thrillers, plays, and double shortstory and poetry collections. I counted and recounted his books, and then counted them again. And there was more. Bridges also wrote for the movies, that is, he wrote movie scenarios and his novels had been adapted into movies as well, but—wait for it—his movies, adaptations, and screenplays alike, are now all lost.
I made a plan to read everything that I could find that Bridges wrote, and except for not reading a few uncollected short stories, two unpublished plays, and any publications yet unknown by this writing, I have done so.” Kaleta’s new critical biography, Victor Bridges, is on Amazon now.
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