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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 |
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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