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12-18-2011, 09:47 PM
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000758381
Crime fiction master Ed McBain, also known as Evan Hunter, penned more than 115 books (among them the 87th Precinct and Matthew Hope series) and numerous screenplays, including the one for Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. He is considered the father of the police procedural and hardboiled crime genres.
To celebrate the rerelease of much of his work, now available for the first time in digital format, Amazon Publishing imprint Thomas & Mercer asked a group of acclaimed mystery and thriller authors to tell us how Ed McBain influenced them.
Stephen King:
I think Evan Hunter, known by that name or as Ed McBain, was one of the most influential writers of the postwar generation. He was the first writer to successfully merge realism with genre fiction, and by so doing I think he may actually have created the kind of popular fiction that drove the best-seller lists and lit up the American imagination in the years 1960 to 2000. Books as disparate as The New Centurions, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Godfather, Black Sunday, and The Shining all owe a debt to Evan Hunter, who taught a whole generation of baby boomers how to write stories that were not only entertaining but that truthfully reflected the times and the culture. He will be remembered for bringing the so-called "police procedural" into the modern age, but he did so much more than that. And he was one hell of a nice man.
Crime fiction master Ed McBain, also known as Evan Hunter, penned more than 115 books (among them the 87th Precinct and Matthew Hope series) and numerous screenplays, including the one for Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. He is considered the father of the police procedural and hardboiled crime genres.
To celebrate the rerelease of much of his work, now available for the first time in digital format, Amazon Publishing imprint Thomas & Mercer asked a group of acclaimed mystery and thriller authors to tell us how Ed McBain influenced them.
Stephen King:
I think Evan Hunter, known by that name or as Ed McBain, was one of the most influential writers of the postwar generation. He was the first writer to successfully merge realism with genre fiction, and by so doing I think he may actually have created the kind of popular fiction that drove the best-seller lists and lit up the American imagination in the years 1960 to 2000. Books as disparate as The New Centurions, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Godfather, Black Sunday, and The Shining all owe a debt to Evan Hunter, who taught a whole generation of baby boomers how to write stories that were not only entertaining but that truthfully reflected the times and the culture. He will be remembered for bringing the so-called "police procedural" into the modern age, but he did so much more than that. And he was one hell of a nice man.