Ed McBain

Litencyc Editors (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 15 Oct 1926
Died 6 Jul 2005
Activity 1954-2005

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Genres and Modes

Crime and Detective

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Story-writer

Resources

McBain's Works

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[Preliminary entry] Born Salvatore Lombino on October 25 1926 to second-generation Italian immigrants in East Harlem, Salvatore Lombino would become world-famous as “Ed McBain”, the inventor of police procedural novels. His father a postman, Lombino was brought up in the Bronx, the setting of many of his 87th Precinct novels. His artistic talents led him to study at Cooper Union Art School, but at age 18 he joined the US Navy, serving until 1946 and writing his first novel whilst serving on a destroyer in the Pacific. On his return he majored in English at Hunter College, began publishing under the pen name “Evan Hunter”, and supported himself by teaching English in underprivileged schools in New York. In 1952 he became an editor with the Scott Meredith literary agency, looking…

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Citation: Editors, Litencyc. "Ed McBain". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 February 2005 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3024, accessed 23 April 2024.]

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