Charles Haldeman (born Heuss; September 27, 1931 – January 19, 1983) was an American novelist. Life Haldeman was born in Pickens, South Carolina, to German immigrant Charles Heuss and Frances McFall. Heuss died in March 1935 while the family was living in Syracuse, New York, and his mother moved them back to Pickens. While attending a hotel management school in Washington, D. C., she met and married Willard W. Haldeman, in 1937. Haldeman adopted the boys, changing their last name to his. The family moved a number of times as Willard Haldeman took different jobs, and lived in Maryland, New York City, and Sackets Harbor, New York (on which Haldeman later modeled the town in his second novel, The Snowman. Haldeman attended thirteen schools in eleven years. After high school, he attended Erskine College as a freshman (1948–49) and Antioch College as a sophomore(1949–50), and the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida. He was enlisted into the US Navy in 1950 and served until 1954. After his discharge, he worked briefly in New York City, and then traveled to Europe, where he attended the University of Heidelberg between 1955 and 1957. He then moved to Athens, Greece, where he taught high school biology and algebra at the American Community Schools for two years. In 1959, he moved to Mikonos, and then to Crete, where he bought and restored a Venetian villa on the waterfront in Chania. He lived on Crete until just before his death. He became friends with Charles Henri Ford and wrote the screenplay for Ford's film, "Johnny Minotaur" (1971). He also developed friendships with many writers and poets of the time, not least among them Nikos Gatsos, the Greek poet and the American writer Henry Miller. Disturbing the older Miller at work, as a young writer starting out, Miller later wrote, in the Preface to his book “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”: “My warmest thanks go to Charles Haldeman, who came all the way from Winter Park, Florida, to put Wilhelm Fränger's book on Hieronymus Bosch in my hands. May he forgive me for being such a poor host that day!” Peter Levi, the English poet and travel writer, in an interview in 1979 for the Paris Review (Fall 1979, No. 76) talks of having dinner and attempting to write surrealist poetry with both Gatsos and Haldeman: "Toward the end of the evening,