Better known by his pseudonym Ed McBain. Born Salvatore Albert Lombino, he legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952. While successful and well known as Evan Hunter, he was even better known as Ed McBain, a name he used for most of his crime fiction, beginning in 1956.
American novelist and screenwriter who often wrote as Ed McBain. Also used other pseudonyms such as Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, and Richard Marsten.
His Ed McBain "87th Precinct" novels were the inspiration for the TV series "Hill Street Blues" .
Pen name derived from EVANder Childs High School and HUNTER College, both located in New York, both of which he attended. He legally changed his name from Salvatore Lombino to Evan Hunter because he thought Italian writers werent taken seriously.
A noted exponent of the sub-genre of police procedural drama.
He penned more than 100 novels, plays and film scripts.
Before becoming a writer, was (among other things) a literary agent who represented P. G. Wodehouse. The two authors became good friends after discovering they shared the same birthday.
Holder of a 1986 Grand Master Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Mystery Writers of America.
Reputedly never planned a book, "just sat down and wrote".
A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.
I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters, for example, I have to do a lot of research online. .
