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John Ball
Sign in to saveAlso known as John Dudley Ball, John Ball Jr, John Dudley Ball Jr
American author (1911–1988)
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It is catalogued under topics including 1911 births, 1988 deaths and 20th-century American male writers.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 8 July 1911
- Died
- 15 October 1988
- Works
- 70
Top works
- An Exchange of Eagles / Beauty Sleep / Police Chief
- The Ethnic Detectives
- The Detective Story
- In the heat of the night
- Cop cade
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Film & TV
Schenectady, New York, U.S.
John Dudley Ball Jr. (July 8, 1911 – October 15, 1988) was an American writer. He is best known for mystery novels involving police detective Virgil Tibbs. Tibbs was introduced in the 1965 novel In the Heat of the Night, which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America and was made into an Oscar-winning film of the same name, starring Sidney Poitier and Rod…
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,034
- Total plays
- 56,549
Tags
John Ball (CZ) - we played our first show on 30.05.2004 our last show on 29.06.2007 besides czech republic, we were privileged by the possibility to share our emotions and friendship with many people and bands in poland, germany, slovakia, estonia, russia, ukraine, romania, slovenia, italy and france. we recorded SOCIETY VS. COMMUNITY that was released: on cd by SELF-TITLED DEMO RECORDS and PROXIMA RECORDS from moscow, on tape with cooperation of polish IN OUR HANDS RECS. <a href="https://w
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Ball
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Schenectady
- Place of death
- Encino
- Occupation
- screenwriter
- Educated at
- Carroll University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Edgar Awards
- Genre
- detective fiction
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- place of burial
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- date of birth
- 1911-07-08
- date of death
- 1988-10-15
- cause of death
- Colorectal cancer
- ethnic group
- Americans
- name in native language
- John Dudley Ball
- pseudonym
- Donald Johnson
- manner of death
- natural causes
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