Obit: Ed Mcbain

Subject: Obit: Ed McBain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 01:20 PM

Not a folkie of course but definitely a fine exponent of a writing tradition, wonder if he'll end up in 87th heaven.
Giok

Subject: RE: Obit: Ed Mcbain
From: Wesley S
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 02:01 PM

My goodness I've read a lot of his books. Didn't he also use the penname Evan Hunter ?

Subject: RE: Obit: Ed Mcbain
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 02:04 PM

oy!

~S~

Subject: RE: Obit: Ed Mcbain
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 02:27 PM

Yes Blackboard Jungle was one of his.
G

Subject: RE: Obit: Ed Mcbain
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 02:31 PM

Yes, but I loved his deaf lady....the wife...can't remember her name...Toby? Terri? Tony?

Subject: RE: Obit: Ed Mcbain
From: HuwG
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 02:51 PM

Teddy (Carella).

Bless him. He conjured a very human, fallible and readable set of bulls and denizens into existence.

Subject: RE: Obit: Ed Mcbain
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 02:55 PM

His real name was Evan Hunter. Ed McBain was the pen name.

Terry Gross replayed an interview with him on today's Fresh Air.

Subject: RE: Obit: Ed Mcbain
From: shepherdlass
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 04:02 PM

Sad news indeed. A fine writer and a master of characterization.

Subject: RE: Obit: Ed Mcbain
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 04:44 PM

That's sad.... a good writer and a thoroughly nice bloke by all accounts.

LTS

Subject: RE: Obit: Ed Mcbain
From: GUEST,Sheila
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 04:47 PM

He was born Salvatore Lombino. He changed his name in 1952, believing that "prejuduce against writers with foreign names" would lead publishers to reject their work. "If you're an Italian-American, you're not supposed to be a literate person," he said in 1981. This was reported in the N.Y. Times.

Subject: RE: Obit: Ed Mcbain
From: mack/misophist
Date: 08 Jul 05 - 08:26 PM

Porfiry Petrovitch is going to be upset.