Evan Hunter
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 15 October 1926
- Died
- 6 July 2005
- Works
- 443
Top works
- Resurrection Man - The Corn Maiden - Hostages
- Transgressions.
- The empty hours
- Crime Novels : Four Classic Thrillers 1964-1969
- Like love
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Film & TV
Writing · New York City, New York, USA
Evan Hunter (né Salvatore Albert Lombino; known as Ed McBain until 1952; October 15, 1926 - July 6, 2005) was an American author and screenwriter. He also used the pen names John Abbott, Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, Ezra Hannon, and Richard Marsten, amongst others. He is best known for writing the screenplay for THE BIRDS (1963) dir. Alfred Hitchcock.
Known for
- I Am Alfred Hitchcock — Self (archive footage)2021
- The Chronology Protection Case2013
- The Trouble with 'Marnie' — Self2000
- All About 'The Birds' — Self2000
- Wogan — Self (Ed McBain)1982
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 227
- Total plays
- 600
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 75,924x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,013x
- Fully convolutional networks for semantic segmentation
· 2015 · cited 27,571x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,828x
- Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 19,178x
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Key facts
- Born
- Salvatore Albert Lombino , ( 1926-10-15 ) October 15, 1926, New York City , U.S.
- Died
- July 6, 2005 (2005-07-06) (aged 78), Weston, Connecticut , U.S.
- Pen name
- John Abbott, Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, Ezra Hannon, Ed McBain, Richard Marsten
- Occupation
- Novelist short story writer screenwriter
- Period
- 1951–2005
- Genre
- Crime fiction , mystery fiction , pornography, science fiction
- Notable works
- 87th Precinct series
- Spouse
- Anita Melnick, 1949 (divorced), Mary Vann Finley, 1973 (divorced), Dragica Dimitrijevic, 1997 (until his death)
- Children
- 3 sons; 1 stepdaughter
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Key dates
- Born
- 15 October 1926
- Died
- 6 July 2005
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ed
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Weston
- Educated at
- Cooper Union
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- 87th Precinct
Article
Evan Hunter (born Salvatore Albert Lombino; October 15, 1926 – July 6, 2005) was an American author of crime and mystery fiction. He is best known as the author of the 87th Precinct novels, published under the pen name Ed McBain, which are considered staples of the police procedural genre.
His other notable works include The Blackboard Jungle, a semi-autobiographical novel about life in a troubled inner-city school, which was adapted into a hit 1955 film of the same name. He also wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 film The Birds, based on the Daphne du Maurier short story.
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