Oliver Lange

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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1971
  • Latest Book:
    September 1989
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About the Author

Oliver Lange is the pseudonym of a man who used to work at the New Yorker till he pulled the plug out and did what others talk about doing. He moved to New Mexico, six miles from the nearest phone. They deliver a telegram in two to four days, and by then whatever it said isn’t so important.

He has no running water on his place, nor any electricity. He’s got a wife and three kids, Paisano wine, a great view, and freedom.

John Warren Wadleigh (1927–2013), best known by his pen name Oliver Lange, was an American author, artist, and art critic based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is best known for his 1971 novel Vandenberg.
Born: John Warren Wadleigh, December 14, 1927, New York City
Died: September 24, 2013 (aged 85), Bandon, Oregon
Occupation: Novelist, art critic, painter, sculptor

Book List in Order: 9 titles

  • Vandenberg

    Gene Vanderberg, 50, with a son, a place, a thing to do, was pretty well satisfied. He wasn’t a bad man. Maybe he was a remarkable man. Then it happened. Nothing that important had happened in the United States in 195 years. Maybe it was inevita...

  • Incident at LA Junta

    KIRKUS REVIEW: Incident is just that -- with all that is providential (improvidential really) and done-with-once-it's-over that the word implies -- one of those less fateful appointments in Samarra which in this case is a dusty deadspot in Mexico...

  • Red Snow

    Adventure novel about the menace of a mountain lion in Pecos, a remote New Mexico mountain town. One day a huge mountain lion approaches and sets off an extraordinary chain of events. It attacks a schoolgirl, mauls a hunter, kills a sheepherder. The ...

  • The Land of the Long Shadow

    Outcast Roy Aldous Gutierrey owns the decrepit New Mexico ghost town of Sawmill River Flats, abandoned until "discovered" by the wealthy, and suddenly, everybody is fighting for a piece of his town....

  • Pas de deux

  • Next of Kin

  • Defiance

  • Devil at Home

    Dr. Carl Mast, witty, cultured, articulate, and a great humanitarian, is about to receive the Nobel Prize. In Oslo, he shocks the world by accepting the award and revealing his true identity---the doctor who assisted Himmler in the death camps and d...

  • Making It

    From Publishers Weekly Though this engaging story about a parolee trying hard to go straight has many aspects of a suspense novel, it is so beguiling and realistic that narrow classification would be unfair. Jeremy Wurm gets a job at UPS and soon me...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Oliver Lange has published 9 books.

Oliver Lange does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Making It, was published in September 1989.

The first book by Oliver Lange, Vandenberg, was published in January 1971.

No. Oliver Lange does not write books in series.
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