Ed McBain
Ed McBain
Ed McBainis one of the pen names of an American author and screenwriter. Born Salvatore Albert Lombino, he legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952. While successful and well known as Evan Hunter, he was even better known as Ed McBain, a name he used for most of his crime fiction, beginning in 1956. He also used the pen names John Abbott, Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, Ezra Hannon, and Richard Marsten, amongst others...
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth15 October 1926
writing style actors
Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.
writing reader ifs
Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?
character roots balance
I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.
wisdom world stairs
The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down.
banish bursting death emotions fear juvenile mind result sees street violent
He sees it in the juvenile street gangs, who live in fear of death and who propagate fear by inflicting death to banish fear. And he sees it at its worst, as the result of violent emotions bursting into the mind and erupting from the hands.
beneath bleed countless daily death lives multiply relentless sees witnessed
He sees death in the prostitutes who have witnessed the death of honor, and daily multiply the death of love, who bleed away their own lives 50 times a day beneath the relentless stabbings of countless conjugations.
behind convicted death gradual imposed sees
He sees death in convicted thieves, the burglars, the muggers, the con men, the pimps, a death imposed by law, the gradual death of confinement behind bars.