Ed McBain
Ed McBain
Ed McBainis one of the pen names of an American author and screenwriter. Born Salvatore Albert Lombino, he legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952. While successful and well known as Evan Hunter, he was even better known as Ed McBain, a name he used for most of his crime fiction, beginning in 1956. He also used the pen names John Abbott, Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, Ezra Hannon, and Richard Marsten, amongst others...
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth15 October 1926
character squad people
It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops.
style hunters different
Its a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.
writing style actors
Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.
writing reader ifs
Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?
character roots balance
I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.
wisdom world stairs
The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down.
behind convicted death gradual imposed sees
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.