The Girl on the Via Flaminia

by Hayes Alfred

  While he ran.

  About the Author

  Poet, screenwriter, and novelist, Alfred Hayes, was one of the most important American writers of the 1950s and 1960s. Twice nominated for Academy Awards, he wrote films for Fellini, De Sica (The Bicycle Thief), Rossellini (Paisan), Zinnemann, and Fritz Lang (Clash By Night). His novels include In Love and My Face for the World to See, and his poem Joe Hill was set to music by Earl Robinson and made famous by Joan Baez. Hayes died in 1985.

  [1] Paul Bailey on Alfred Hayes, whose quartet of novels goes to the core of doomed relationships, Saturday, October 29, 2005, The Guardian. Paul Bailey’s most recent book is A Dog’s Life, published by Hamish Hamilton (2003).