- Born
- Died
- Birth nameGeorge Vincent Higgins
- George V. Higgins was born on November 13, 1939 in Brockton, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer, known for Killing Them Softly (2012), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962). He was married to Lorettas Lucas Cubberly and Elizabeth Mulkerin. He died on November 6, 1999 in Milton, Massachusetts, USA.
- SpousesLorettas Lucas Cubberly(August 23, 1979 - November 6, 1999) (his death)Elizabeth Mulkerin(September 4, 1965 - Jamuary 1979) (divorced)
- 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.
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