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08 Jul 05 - 01:20 PM (#1518156) Subject: Obit: Ed McBain From: John MacKenzie Not a folkie of course but definitely a fine exponent of a writing tradition, wonder if he'll end up in 87th heaven. Giok |
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08 Jul 05 - 02:01 PM (#1518186) Subject: RE: Obit: Ed Mcbain From: Wesley S My goodness I've read a lot of his books. Didn't he also use the penname Evan Hunter ? |
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08 Jul 05 - 02:04 PM (#1518191) Subject: RE: Obit: Ed Mcbain From: wysiwyg oy! ~S~ |
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08 Jul 05 - 02:27 PM (#1518211) Subject: RE: Obit: Ed Mcbain From: John MacKenzie Yes Blackboard Jungle was one of his. G |
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08 Jul 05 - 02:31 PM (#1518213) Subject: RE: Obit: Ed Mcbain From: Sorcha Yes, but I loved his deaf lady....the wife...can't remember her name...Toby? Terri? Tony? |
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08 Jul 05 - 02:51 PM (#1518228) Subject: RE: Obit: Ed Mcbain From: HuwG Teddy (Carella). Bless him. He conjured a very human, fallible and readable set of bulls and denizens into existence. |
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08 Jul 05 - 02:55 PM (#1518233) Subject: RE: Obit: Ed Mcbain From: Stilly River Sage His real name was Evan Hunter. Ed McBain was the pen name. Terry Gross replayed an interview with him on today's Fresh Air. |
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08 Jul 05 - 04:02 PM (#1518278) Subject: RE: Obit: Ed Mcbain From: shepherdlass Sad news indeed. A fine writer and a master of characterization. |
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08 Jul 05 - 04:44 PM (#1518316) Subject: RE: Obit: Ed Mcbain From: Liz the Squeak That's sad.... a good writer and a thoroughly nice bloke by all accounts. LTS |
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08 Jul 05 - 04:47 PM (#1518320) Subject: RE: Obit: Ed Mcbain From: GUEST,Sheila 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. |
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08 Jul 05 - 08:26 PM (#1518520) Subject: RE: Obit: Ed Mcbain From: mack/misophist Porfiry Petrovitch is going to be upset. |