After his death it came out that he had written as many as 15 novels
before his first, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, was published.
Lawyer who was both prosecutor and defense attorney before becoming a
writer.
As an attorney he defended both Eldridge Cleaver and G. Gordon
Liddy.
Mystery writer H.R.F. Keating selected The Friends of Eddie Coyle in
1987 for his list of the one hundred best crime novels.
His novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle was selected in 1985 as one of the
twenty best American novels since World War II by the British
Booksellers Association.
If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.
Writing is a hard game. No one asked you to start. No one will notice if you stop.
I'm not doing dialogue because I like doing dialogue. The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.