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{{short description|American novelist}}

{{Infobox person 
| name = Hal Bennett
| image = Bennettbody.png
| imagesize = 201px
| caption = Bennett author photo from the jacket of ''Wait Until The Evening''
| birth_name = George Harold Bennett
| birth_date = April 21, 1930
| birth_place = [[Buckingham, Virginia]]
| death_date = September 11, 2004
| death_place = [[Newark, New Jersey]]
| occupation = Writer
| nationality = American
| other names = Harriet Janeway<br> John D. Revere
}}

'''George Harold "Hal" Bennett''' (April 21, 1930 – September 11, 2004)<ref>''The New Jersey Star-Ledger'', Newark, September 11, 2004.</ref><ref>[http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/archives-cc/app/details.php?id=7415&return=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bu.edu%2Fphpbin%2Farchives-cc%2Fapp%2Fbrowse.php%3Fletter%3DB%26sort_column%3Dcomposite_name%26sort_direction%3DASC%26per_page%3D10%26offset%3D40%26set_page%3Dnext The Hal Bennett collection] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140520020046/http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/archives-cc/app/details.php?id=7415&return=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bu.edu%2Fphpbin%2Farchives-cc%2Fapp%2Fbrowse.php%3Fletter%3DB%26sort_column%3Dcomposite_name%26sort_direction%3DASC%26per_page%3D10%26offset%3D40%26set_page%3Dnext |date=2014-05-20 }} in the [http://www.bu.edu/archives/holdings/contemporary/index.html Contemporary Collections] at the [http://www.bu.edu/archives/ Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University]</ref> was an author known for a variety of books. His 1970 novel ''[[Lord of Dark Places]]'' was described as "a satirical and all but scatological attack on the phallic myth",<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cToDAAAAMBAJ&q=hal+bennett+lord+dark+places&pg=PA79 |title = The Novels of Hal Bennett|work=[[Negro Digest|Black World/Negro Digest]]|first=Ronald|last=Walcott|page=79|publisher = Johnson Publishing Company|date = July 1974}}</ref> and was reprinted in 1997. He was ''[[Playboy (magazine)|Playboy]]''{{'}}s most promising writer of the year. [http://www.turtlepoint.com/catalogue/bennett-lordofdarkplaces.html] He also wrote under the pen names Harriet Janeway and John D. Revere (the Assassin series). His books are sometimes compared to [[Mark Twain]]'s style of satire, but contain a much stronger sexual tone.

==Awards and honors==
*1973: [[PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction|William Faulkner Prize]]

==Selected bibliography==
<ref>Emmanuel S. Nelson (ed.), ''Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook''.</ref>
* ''The Mexico City Poems and House on Hay'' (Chicago: Obsidian Press, 1961)
* ''[[A Wilderness of Vines]]'' (Garden City: Doubleday, 1966)
* ''The Black Wine'' (Garden City: Doubleday, 1968)
* ''[[Lord of Dark Places]]'' (New York: Norton, 1970) ({{ISBN|1885983123}}) ({{ISBN|9781885983121}})
* ''[[Wait Until the Evening]]'' (Garden City: Doubleday, 1974) ({{ISBN|0385010222}}) ({{ISBN|9780385010221}})
* ''[[Seventh Heaven (Hal Bennett novel)|Seventh Heaven]]'' (Garden City: Doubleday, 1976) ({{ISBN|0385066597}}) ({{ISBN|9780385066594}})
* ''Insanity Runs In Our Family: Short Stories'' (Garden City: Doubleday, 1977)({{ISBN|0385066643}}) ({{ISBN|9780385066648}})

===Selected uncollected short stories===
* "Wings of the Dove," ''Black American Literature Forum'', Vol. 23, No. 2 (Summer 1989), pp. 223-230
* "Miss Askew on Ice," ''Callaloo'', Vol. 10, No. 1 (Winter 1987), pp. 1-12
* "Chewing Gum," ''Black American Literature Forum'', Vol. 21, No. 4 (Winter 1987), pp. 379-392

===as Harriet Janeway===
* ''[[This Passionate Land]]'' (1979)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=60&ti=51,60&Search_Arg=janeway&Search_Code=NALL&CNT=25&PID=b9RBR8EAxfJb3VlFfozBiBk5&SEQ=20100608193338&SID=2|title = WebVoyage Record View 1}}</ref>

===as John D. Revere===
* ''Justin Perry : The Assassin''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=3&ti=1,3&Search_Arg=bennett,%20hal&Search_Code=NALL&CNT=25&PID=zQCnwwgGIwZQNDcKl6nIdmPpg&SEQ=20100608210321&SID=1|title = WebVoyage}}</ref>
* ''The Assassin 2 : Vatican Kill''
* ''The Assassin 3 : Born To Kill''
* ''The Assassin 4: Death's Running Mate''
* ''The Assassin 5: Stud Service''

===Autobiography===
* {{cite book |last=Bennett |first=Hal |date=1991 |editor-last=Nakamura |editor-first=Joyce |title=Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series |volume=13 |publisher=Gale Research |pages=73–88 |chapter=The Visible Man |isbn=9780810345126 }}

==Further reading==
* Newman, Katharine, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2904109?seq=1 "An Evening with Hal Bennett: An Interview"], ''Black American Literature Forum'', Vol. 21, No. 4 (Winter 1987), pp. 357–378.
* Packer, Nancy, [Review of ''Insanity Runs in Our Family''], ''Studies in Short Fiction'', Vol. 15, No. 3 (Summer 1978), pp. 335-36.
* Walcott, Ronald, [https://books.google.com/books?id=rjkDAAAAMBAJ&dq=Novels+of+hal+bennett&pg=PA36 "The Writer as Satirist, Part I: The Novels of Hal Bennett"]. ''[[Black World|Black World/Negro Digest]]'', June 1974, pp. 36–48, 89–97; [https://books.google.com/books?id=cToDAAAAMBAJ&q=Novels+of+Hal+Bennett&pg=PA79 "The Writer as Magician/Priest, Part II: The Novels of Hal Bennett"], ''Black World/Negro Digest'', pp. 78–96.

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