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Evan Hunter

Evan Hunter

Ed McBain, a recipient of the Mystery Writers of America's coveted Grand Master Award, was also the first American to receive the Diamond Dagger, the British Crime Writers Association's highest award. His books have sold more than one hundred million copies, ranging from the more than fifty titles in the 87th Precinct series (including the Edgar Award-nominated Money, Money, Money) to the bestselling novels written under his own name, Evan Hunter -- including The Blackboard Jungle (now in a 50th anniversary edition from Pocket Books) and Criminal Conversation. Fiddlers, his final 87th Precinct novel, was recently published in hardcover. Writing as both Ed McBain and... Read full bio

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Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from Candyland
Apr 05, 2013
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from The Moment She Was Gone
Dec 07, 2012
The Chisholms is now available in eBook
Jun 15, 2010
The Chisholms will be released on June 15, 2010 in eBook
Jun 15, 2010
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Candyland
Aug 06, 2009
The Moment She Was Gone is now available in eAudio
Nov 10, 2008
Candyland is now available in eAudio
Nov 10, 2008
The Chisholms will be released on December 05, 2007 in Trade Paperback
Dec 05, 2007
The Chisholms is now available in Trade Paperback
Dec 05, 2007
The Chisholms will be released on December 05, 2007 in
Dec 05, 2007
The Chisholms is now available in
Dec 05, 2007
The Moment She Was Gone will be released on September 21, 2007 in Trade Paperback
Sep 21, 2007
The Moment She Was Gone is now available in Trade Paperback
Sep 21, 2007
The Moment She Was Gone will be released on September 21, 2007 in
Sep 21, 2007
The Moment She Was Gone is now available in
Sep 21, 2007
The Blackboard Jungle (Classic Ed) will be released on September 28, 2004 in Mass Market Paperback
Sep 28, 2004

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AllVoices, April 11, 2013
...Laura Lippman, and several other mystery writers who write magical prose. For the police procedurals, my hero was Evan Hunter, writing as Ed McBain. When I read the 8th Precinct Series, I fell in love with this type of ensemble cast, and I can see that...
Huffington Post, March 27, 2013
...lives unaware that disaster is all around them. He deliberately started the film, with the help of screenwriter Evan Hunter, as a light comedy to lull the audience into a false sense of security. In my new book The Making of Hitchcock's The Birds, which...
Flagpole, February 13, 2013
...of genres, but I’ve always found it fascinating. The master of the genre was Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter, author of The Blackboard Jungle among others), whose long-running 87th Precinct series was a collection of veritable textbooks for writing workaday...
Vogue.com, October 26, 2012
...budget and generous special effects, but it was also proved a problematic effort to get to the screen. Evan Hunter, the novelist-turned-screenwriter who drafted the screenplay, felt much of his material was cast aside or misused; the ending was up in the...
Pop Matters, June 20, 2012
...Hitchcock’s greatest films, with particular focus on Hitchcock’s process of working with his writers (Joseph Stefano, Evan Hunter, and Jay Presson Allen). Raubicheck and Srebnick (I’m resisting the temptation to refer to them as “the two...
Equities.com, January 11, 2013
...Hitch was. "He was terribly upset by all this," Hedren told Spoto for his 1983 book. Screenwriter Evan Hunter concurred: "He wanted to shoot it, but something in him didn't want to shoot it, and everybody could hear how nervous he was." Even so, he made...
One News Page, January 11, 2013
...Hitch was. "He was terribly upset by all this," Hedren told Spoto for his 1983 book. Screenwriter Evan Hunter concurred: "He wanted to shoot it, but something in him didn't want to shoot it, and everybody could hear how nervous he was." Even so, he made...
MCN, January 11, 2013
...Hitch was. "He was terribly upset by all this," Hedren told Spoto for his 1983 book. Screenwriter Evan Hunter concurred: "He wanted to shoot it, but something in him didn't want to shoot it, and everybody could hear how nervous he was." Even so, he made...
Equities.com, January 10, 2013
...Hitch was. "He was terribly upset by all this," Hedren told Spoto for his 1983 book. Screenwriter Evan Hunter concurred: "He wanted to shoot it, but something in him didn't want to shoot it, and everybody could hear how nervous he was." Even so, he made...
Pop Matters, November 29, 2012
...this one is credited to someone called Curt Cannon. Who? According to IMDB, that’s a pseudonym for Evan Hunter, aka Ed McBain, creator of the 87th Precinct books. Some thoughtful person has provided excellent quotes from this episode at IMDB, and...
Pop Matters, November 29, 2012
...this one is credited to someone called Curt Cannon. Who? According to IMDB, that’s a pseudonym for Evan Hunter, aka Ed McBain, creator of the 87th Precinct books. Some thoughtful person has provided excellent quotes from this episode at IMDB, and...
High-Def Digest, November 6, 2012
...director. People included in the documentary include screenwriter Joseph Stefano, Hitchcock's daughter Pat Hitchcock O'Connell, screenwriter Evan Hunter, screenwriter Jay Presson Allen, among others. Production Photographs (SD) – A gallery of...