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Evan Hunter
Sign in to saveAlso known as Salvatore Albert Lombino, Hunt Collins, Curt Cannon, Dean Hudson, Richard Marsten, Ezra Hannon, John Abbott, Salvatore Lombino
American author and screenwriter (1926-2005)
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Evan Hunter (1926–2005) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and science fiction writer. Born in New York City, he resided in New York and The Bronx. His literary career began in 1952, and he wrote in the genres of mystery fiction, science fiction literature, and crime literature. Notable works include *87th Precinct*, *The empty hours*, *Like love*, *Dames, danger, death*, and *Calypso*.
Hunter was educated at Hunter College and Cooper Union. He was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and was influenced by T. H. White. He received the Cartier Diamond Dagger award. He died of laryngeal cancer in Weston in 2005.
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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
via Open Library + Wikidata
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
via TMDB
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 84,951x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 35,562x
- Fully convolutional networks for semantic segmentation
· 2015 · cited 28,130x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,879x
- Welcome to the Tidyverse
· 2019 · cited 20,461x
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Quotes
- “To spend his allotted time on earth as a bank teller or an insurance salesman would have seemed an utter waste to Rick. Women, he had reflected had no such problem. Creation had been given to them as a gift and a woman was self-sufficient within her own creative shell. A man needed more which perhaps was one reason why a woman could never understand a man’s concern for the job he had to do.”
- “They'd taught him how to milk cows, and now they expected him to tame lions.”
- “A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “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.”
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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
via Wikipedia infobox
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
- Field of work
- literature
- Genre
- crime literature
- Official website
- www.evanhunter.com
- Image
- EvanHunter.jpg
- Residence
- The Bronx
Show 9 more facts
- date of birth
- 1926-10-15
- date of death
- 2005-07-06
- cause of death
- laryngeal cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- influenced by
- T. H. White
- member of
- Phi Beta Kappa Society
- start of work period
- 1952-00-00
- Commons category
- Evan Hunter
- has works in the collection
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
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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