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Also 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)

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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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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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Active from
1926
Active to
2005

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
227
Total plays
600

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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  4. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

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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

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www.evanhunter.com
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date of birth
1926-10-15
date of death
2005-07-06
start of work period
1952-00-00
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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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