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Ed Lacy

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born

August 25, 1911 in New York, The United States

died

January 07, 1968

gender

male

genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Short Stories, Sports

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Ed Lacy was the pseudonymn of Leonard (Len) S Zinberg, who was born in New York City on 25 August 1925. After his mother and father had divorced and his mother remarried, he spent his early years living in relative affluence in the outskirts of Harlem.

During the late 1920s, he attended the College of the City of New York and then, in the 1930s he travelled throughout the United States where he had a variety of odd jobs, including working as a butcher, to support himself. In the early 1940s, he returned to New York, where he married and resided for the rest of his life.

Back in New York, he was a freelance writer and some of his early published work emerged in literary journals, such as a short story titled 'A Leaner' in 'Story Magazine' in...more

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Books by Ed Lacy

Average rating: 3.34 · 89 ratings · 19 reviews · 27 distinct works

	Room to Swing 4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1957 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Best That Ever Did It 3.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1955 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Men from the Boys 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1956 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Blonde Bait 3.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1959 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Woman Aroused 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Big Fix 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1960 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Dead End 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1958 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Strip for Violence 3.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1953 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Shakedown for Murder 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1958 — 3 editions	My rating:
	South Pacific Affair 2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1961 — 3 editions	My rating: