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
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.
beneath bleed countless daily death lives multiply relentless sees witnessed
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.
banish bursting death emotions fear juvenile mind result sees street violent
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.
wisdom world stairs
The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down.
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.
writing reader ifs
Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?
writing style actors
Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.
style hunters different
Its a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.
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.
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.
thanks cop
I've never been a cop nor hope to be a cop, thanks.
should preference ashamed
I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.
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.
trying sometimes novel
I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.