Charles Willeford
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born
January 02, 1919
died
March 27, 1988
gender
male
place of birth
Little Rock, The United States
about this author
Willeford was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1919. Following the death of his father from tuberculosis in 1922, Willeford and his mother moved to the Los Angeles area. After his mother's death in 1927, also from TB, he lived with his grandmother Mattie Lowey on Figueroa Street near Exposition Park until 1932. At the age of thirteen, in the midst of the Great Depression, he boarded a freight train in Los Angeles, assumed a false identity, and—passing as a seventeen-year-old—traveled by rail along the Mexican border for a year.
In March 1935, he signed up with the California National Guard; a few months later, he enlisted in the regular United States Army. He spent two years stationed in the Philippines serving as a fire tru...more
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Miami Blues by Charles Willeford avg rating 4.15 — 143 ratings — published 1984 6 editions |
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Pick-up by Charles Willeford avg rating 4.29 — 112 ratings — published 1955 4 editions |
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Cockfighter by Charles Willeford avg rating 4.27 — 79 ratings — published 1974 4 editions |
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The Way We Die Now by Charles Willeford avg rating 4.15 — 79 ratings — published 1988 8 editions |
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Sideswipe: A Hoke Moseley Detective Thriller by Charles Willeford avg rating 4.10 — 77 ratings — published 1987 6 editions |
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New Hope for the Dead by Charles Willeford avg rating 3.96 — 77 ratings — published 1985 6 editions |
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The Woman Chaser by Charles Willeford avg rating 3.93 — 76 ratings — published 1960 3 editions |
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The Burnt Orange Heresy by Charles Willeford avg rating 3.89 — 71 ratings — published 1971 3 editions |
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The Shark-Infested Custard by Charles Willeford avg rating 3.88 — 56 ratings — published 1996 2 editions |
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Wild Wives by Charles Willeford avg rating 3.83 — 36 ratings — published 1995 4 editions |
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"Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor. "
— Charles Willeford
— Charles Willeford
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"My work is one long triumph over my limitations."
— Charles Willeford (The Second Half of the Double Feature)
— Charles Willeford (The Second Half of the Double Feature)




















