ED McBain
ED McBain or Evan Hunter , of its true name Salvatore Lombino is a writer American, born the October 15th 1926 with New York and deceased the July 6th 2005 at his place in the Connecticut of a cancer of the larynx with age the 78 years.
Biography
Great personality of the black novel, one owes him of many titles with success, several times adapted to the cinema in a notable way.
Curiously, this large Master of the black novel enters in literature with a novel of science fiction Find The Feathered Serpent (1952). Its notoriety will continue however with the appearance on stage of the inspectors of the 87th District to which it will devote an about sixty novels: COP To hasten ( Brush , 1956), The Mugger ( the Bell ringer , 1956), The Pusher ( Fourgue , 1956) poses the first steps of its so particular work which will be able to evolve/move with the passing of years. In this universe eminently machist putting in scene at the sides of Steve Carella, the inspectors Meyer Meyer, Kling, Hawes, Brown and Willis under the lenient and understanding cane of lieutenant Byrnes, the women will penetrate little by little until becoming characters impossible to circumvent (Eileen Burke, Annie Rawles, Sharyn Cooke), ED McBain always endeavouring to stick to contemporary social reality and the evolution of manners. In addition to their innovative qualities: recourse to the scientific police and legal medicine, the novels of McBain are characterized by the concision of the style, a remarkable work over romantic time curling the perfection in Money Money Money ( Cash Cash , 2001), the approach of the police officers in their globality (McBain is one of the first if not the first to make them evolve/move in their family circle) and the overlap of the intrigues ( Lightning , 1985).
The last and Romance fifty-seventh that ED McBain will devote to the 87ème district are Fiddlers! ( Play Violins , 2005). Another recurring, prone character of 13 novels, is the lawyer Matthew Hope, resident of Calusa (Florida) which will cross for the first time Steve Carella in The Last Best Hope ( the Paradise of the Failures , 2000). He was also a noticed scenario writer, in particular that of the Oiseaux of Alfred Hitchcock, and took part in the writing of several series TV ( the iron Man , Columbo )
He wrote under many pseudonyms, like ED McBain, Richard Marsten, Hunt Collins, Curt Canon and Ezra Hannon…
Selective catalog of films
- 1955 : Seed of violence ( Blackboard Jungle ) of Richard Brooks: according to its novel
- 1963: the Birds ( The Birds ) of Alfred Hitchcock: scenario writer, according to Daphne of Maurier
- 1963: Between the sky and the hell ( Tengoku to jigoku 天国と地獄 ) of Akira Kurosawa: according to its novel Ransom on a minor topic ( King' S Ransom )
- 1969: Last summer ( Last Summer ) of Frank Perry: according to its novel
- 1970: the Cry of the cormorant the evening above jonques the of Michel Audiard: according to novel
- 1971: Without apparent mobile of Philippe Labro: according to its novel Ten Plus One .
External bonds
- Official site
Zh-min-nan: Evan Hunter
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