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
talent exciting new-talent
McKinty is an exciting new talent.
detectives week form
A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.
writing editors careers
I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.
book plot research
I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters, for example, I have to do a lot of research online.
real media ideas
I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it's already been covered by the media, and if it's not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?
trying sometimes novel
I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.
art reading writing
I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.
thanks cop
I've never been a cop nor hope to be a cop, thanks.
winning awards musical
I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.
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.