Ed McBain

"Evan Hunter is Ed McBain"

Name: Evan Hunter

AKA: S. A. Lombino (birth name), Hunt Collins, Richard Marsten, D. A. Addams, Ted Taine, Ed McBain, Curt Cannon, John Abbott, Ezra Hannon

Dates: 15^th October 1926 – 6^th June 2005

Occupation: Naval Radarman, Teacher, A.A.A. telephone despatcher, Regal Lobster salesman, Literary reader/editor, Writer

Places: Harlem, The Bronx, Long Island, Westchester County, Florida, Fairfield County CT.

Details: Author of over 200 short stories and more than 125 books (including novels, memoirs, children’s books). There were over 130 TV, Film, Stage and Radio adaptations of his works (including his own screenplays for Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, Strangers When We Meet and Walk Proud).

Over 100 million books sold worldwide.

Awarded the Mystery Writers of America award for short story The Last Spin. A Grand Master of the MWA for lifetime achievement. First American to receive the British Crime Writer’s Association Diamond Dagger award.

Helped to establish and define the ‘police procedural’ style of detective writing with his seminal 87th Precinct series, which began in 1956 with Cop Hater and ended in 2005 with Fiddlers. There were 55 books in the series, some short stories and several screen versions.