Peter Gilman, author, 73

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HILO, Hawaii (AP) - Peter Gilman, whose best-selling novel was turned into
the movie ``Diamond Head,'' died Wednesday. He was 73.

Gilman was a reporter for The Honolulu Star-Bulletin in the 1950s when he
wrote ``Such Sweet Thunder,'' which topped The New York Times Best Seller
List.

Columbia Pictures paid $100,000 for the book in 1959. The novel was turned
into the 1960 movie ``Diamond Head,'' starring Charlton Heston.

Following his success, Gilman moved to Paris, where he joined a group of
fellow-expatriate writers that included James Jones, James Baldwin and
William Styron.

Gilman later trained polo ponies in Argentina, and became an artist and
commercial fisherman in Mexico.

Born in New York, Gilman graduated from UCLA, and went on to work for the
Monterey Peninsula Herald in California, The Associated Press and The Los
Angeles Times.

Survivors include three sons.

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