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William Johnston

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born
January 01, 1924

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William Johnston was born in Lincoln, Illinois, in 1924. He joined the Navy in 1942 and served in the Pacific. He worked as a disc jockey, advertising executive, magazine editor, and PR man before his writing career took off in 1960 with The Marriage Cage, a comic mystery that earned him a Best First Novel Edgar Award nomination from the Mystery Writers of America. He followed that book with a slew of pulp titles for Monarch Books, ranging from light comedy (The Power of Positive Loving) to medical romance (the Doctor Starr trilogy) to soft-core erotica (Save Her for Loving, Teen Age Tramp, Girls on the Wing).

Johnston’s medical novels dovetailed with his first tie-in assignments -- original novels based on the TV series The Nurses, Doctor...more


Average rating: 3.47 · 166 ratings · 22 reviews · 43 distinct works · Similar authors
Get Smart! (Get Smart, #1)
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1965
Get Smart Once Again! (Get ...
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1966
Max Smart and the Perilous ...
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1966
Sorry, Chief... (Get Smart,...
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1966
The Monkees in Who's Got th...
3.17 of 5 stars 3.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1968
Max Smart and the Ghastly G...
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1969
Max Smart - The Spy Who Wen...
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1968
M-G-M's Tom and Jerry: The ...
4.57 of 5 stars 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1969
Missed It By That Much! (Ge...
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1967
Max Smart Loses Control (Ge...
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1968
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