Allan C. Weisbecker (1947/1948 – October 2023) was an American novelist, screenwriter, memoirist, and surfer. He was the author of the "cheerfully immoral novel" Cosmic Banditos, the memoir In Search of Captain Zero and Can't You Get Along With Anyone? A Writer's Memoir and a Tale of a Lost Surfer's Paradise.

Weisbecker also wrote for several surfing magazines, including Surfer, Surfing and The Surfer's Journal, as well as scripting episodes of the television series Crime Story and Miami Vice. A movie version of Cosmic Banditos directed by John Cusack is currently in the works.

Allan Weisbecker

In late 2006 his third book Can't You Get Along With Anyone? A Writer's Memoir and Tale of a Lost Surfer's Paradise, a memoir about his life at the end of the road in Costa Rica, was published. Initially, the book was published in the UK by Humdrumming LLC, in limited quantities. Weisbecker alleged to have narrowly survived the chronicled events that transpired during the writing of the book. In May, 2007 Weisbecker created his own publishing company, Bandito Books and in August 2007 the book became available in the US.

Allan Weisbecker

Can't You Get Along With Anyone?, among other things, uncovers the inner workings of the squatter conflicts and an associated double murder that occurred in Costa Rica during the mid-1990s.

Allan Weisbecker

Weisbecker died in October 2023, at the age of 75.

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Official website

1940s births

Year of birth uncertain

2023 deaths

American male novelists

American male television writers

20th-century American novelists

20th-century American screenwriters

20th-century American male writers

21st-century American memoirists

21st-century American male writers

American television writers