Novels

• The Firemen (1969)
• Elephant Boy: A Story of the Stone Age (1970)
• The Day the Gang Got Rich (1970)
• The Ship That Came Down The Gutter (1970)
• The Return of Crazy Horse (1971)
• Hermes 3000 (1972)
• The Supreme, Superb, Exalted and Delightful, One and Only Magic Building (1973)
• The Fan Man
  The Fan Man
  The Fan Man is a comic novel published in 1974 by the American writer William Kotzwinkle. It is told in the first-person by the narrator, Horse Badorties, a down-at-the-heels hippie living a life of drug-fueled befuddlement in New York City c. 1970...
  
  (1974)
• Night Book (1974)
• Up the Alley with Jack and Joe (1974)
• Swimmer in the Secret Sea (1975)
• Doctor Rat (1976)
• The Leopard's Tooth (1976)
• Fata Morgana (1977)
• The Ants Who Took Away Time (1978)
• Herr Nightingale And the Satin Woman (1978)
• Dream of Dark Harbor: A Ghostly Sea Story (1979)
• The Nap Master (1979)
• Jack in the Box (1980) (later re-titled as Book of Love at the release of the movie
  Book of Love (1990 film)
  Book of Love is a 1990 romantic comedy film directed by New Line Cinema producer Robert Shaye. It is based on the autobiographical novel Jack in the Box by William Kotzwinkle .The film was originally PG-13, but subsequent DVD releases have been the R-rated Director's Cut Book of Love is a 1990...
  
   based on it)
• Christmas at Fontaine's (1982)
• Superman III (1983) (film novelization
  Superman III
  Superman III is a 1983 superhero film and the third film in the Superman film series based upon the long-running DC Comics superhero. Christopher Reeve, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure and Margot Kidder are joined by new cast members Annette O'Toole, Annie Ross, Pamela Stephenson, Robert Vaughn and...
  
  )
• Great World Circus (1983)
• Queen of Swords (1983)
• Seduction in Berlin (1985)
• The Exile (1987)
• The Midnight Examiner (1989)
• The Game of Thirty (1994)
• The Million-Dollar Bear (1995)
• The Bear Went Over the Mountain (1996)
• The Amphora Project (2005)

Collections

• Elephant Bangs Train (1971)
• The Oldest Man: And Other Timeless Stories (1971)
• Trouble in Bugland: A Collection of Inspector Mantis Mysteries (1983)
• Jewel of the Moon
  Jewel of the Moon (1985)
  Jewel of the Moon , is a collection of short stories by American author, William Kotzwinkle. The beautiful and erotic title piece concerns a couple who observe 13 months of subtle sexual foreplay leading up to the inevitable moment of cosmic release....
  
  (1985)
• Hearts of Wood: And Other Timeless Tales (1986)
• The Hot Jazz Trio (1989)
• Tales from the Empty Notebook (1995)

Short stories

• "The Curio Shop" (1980)
• "Fragments of Papyrus from the Temple of the Older Gods" (1988)
• "Blues on the Nile: A Fragment of Papyrus" (1989)
• "Boxcar Blues" (1989)
• "Django Reinhardt
  Django Reinhardt
  Django Reinhardt was a pioneering virtuoso jazz guitarist and composer who invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique that has since become a living musical tradition within French gypsy culture...
  
   Played the Blues" (1989)
• "Horse Badorties Goes Out" (1973)

Screenplays

• A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) (original story, for the film
  A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
  A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master is a 1988 American slasher film and the fourth film in the Nightmare on Elm Street series. The film was directed by Renny Harlin.-Plot:...
  
  )
• Book of Love (1990) (adapted from his novel Jack in the Box, for the film
  Book of Love (1990 film)
  Book of Love is a 1990 romantic comedy film directed by New Line Cinema producer Robert Shaye. It is based on the autobiographical novel Jack in the Box by William Kotzwinkle .The film was originally PG-13, but subsequent DVD releases have been the R-rated Director's Cut Book of Love is a 1990...
  
  )

E.T. the Extra Terrestrial series

• E.T. the Extra Terrestrial (1982) (with Melissa Mathison)
• E.T. the Book of the Green Planet (1985)

Children's books

• The World Is Big and I'm So Small (1986)

• Walter the Farting Dog
  Walter the Farting Dog
  Walter the Farting Dog is a series of children's books by William Kotzwinkle and Glenn Murray, and illustrated by Audrey Colman. All the books in the series star Walter and his many flatulent adventures. In 2007 the fifth book in the series, Walter the Farting Dog: Banned From the Beach, was released...
  
   series (with Glenn Murray)(illustrations by Audrey Colman)
• Walter the Farting Dog (2001) ISBN 1-583-94053-7
• Walter the Farting Dog: Trouble at the Yard Sale (2004) ISBN 0-525-47217-7 (this book has also been released as Walter the Farting Dog Farts Again)
• Rough Weather Ahead for Walter the Farting Dog (2005) ISBN 0-525-47218-5
• Walter the Farting Dog goes on a Cruise (2006) ISBN 0-525-47714-4
• Walter The Farting Dog: Banned From the Beach (June 21, 2007) ISBN 0-525-47812-4 (co-written with Elizabeth Gundy)
• Walter, Canis Inflatus (2004) ISBN 1-583-94110-X

External links

• Eccentric Individuality in William Kotzwinkle's "The Fan Man", "E.T.", "Doctor Rat" and Other Works of Fiction and Fantasy, Leon Lewis (2002)
• biography at fantastic fiction website
• Interview with Kotzwinkle