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Rudy Wurlitzer (born January 3, 1937) is an American novelist and screenwriter, best known for his screenplays for films like Two-Lane Blacktop and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and his novels, including his most recent, Drop Edge of Yonder.
Rudy Wurlitzer is an American novelist and screenwriter who emerged as a significant voice in the counter-cultural literary and film movements of the late 1960s and 1970s.
He is best recognized for writing the screenplays to cult classic films such as Two-Lane Blacktop and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
He creates existentialist road narratives, experimental fiction, and non-linear screenplays that often explore themes of detachment and the open road.