The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don’t exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed.
Donald E. Westlake Quotes
I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.
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| Birth: | 12th July, 1933 |
| Death: | 31st December, 2008 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Novelist |
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Donald Edwin Westlake was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was an American writer, with over a hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit. He specialized in crime fiction, especially comic capers, with an occasional foray into science fiction or other genres. He was a three-time Edgar Award winner, one of only three writers to win Edgars in three different categories. His first novel under his own name, The Mercenaries, was published in 1960.
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