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Ed McBain

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born
in New York, The United States
October 15, 1926

died
July 06, 2005

gender
male

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genre
Literature & Fiction


About this author

Ed McBain is a pseudonym of Evan Hunter, who was born and raised as Salvatore Lombino in New York City, living in East Harlem until the age of 12, at which point his family moved to the Bronx. He attended Olinville Junior High School, then Evander Childs High School, before winning an Art Students League scholarship. Later, he was admitted as an art student at Cooper Union.

Hunter served in the Navy in World War II, writing several short stories while serving aboard a destroyer in the Pacific. However, none of these stories were published until after he had established himself as an author in the 1950s.

After the war, Hunter returned to New York and studied at Hunter College, majoring in English, with minors in dramatics and education. He pub...more


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Ed McBain's Books

Average rating: 3.72 · 26,942 ratings · 1,516 reviews · 221 distinct works · Similar authors
Cop Hater (87th Precinct, #1)
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 1,457 ratings — published 1956 — 27 editions
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Ice (87th Precinct, #36)
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 788 ratings — published 1983 — 18 editions
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The Mugger
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 676 ratings — published 1956 — 25 editions
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Let's Hear It For The Deaf ...
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 524 ratings — published 1973 — 9 editions
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Lady Killer
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 553 ratings — published 1958 — 19 editions
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Fat Ollie's Book (87th Prec...
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 552 ratings — published 2003 — 23 editions
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Kiss (87th Precinct #44)
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 528 ratings — published 1992 — 25 editions
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Fuzz (87th Precinct, #22)
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 516 ratings — published 1968 — 15 editions
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Money, Money, Money (87th P...
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Hail, Hail, The Gang's All ...
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 455 ratings — published 1971 — 18 editions
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Quotes by Ed McBain

“The body lay outside an abandoned, boarded-up theater. The theater had started as a first-run movie house, many years back when the neighborhood had still been fashionable. As the neighborhood began rotting, the theater began showing second-run films, and then old movies, and finally foreign-language films.”
― Ed McBain
tags: cinema, film, hard-boiled
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