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Charles Willeford reference (fwd)
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EDITOR'S NOTE: The name of Charles Willeford came up in John Lavagnino's
recent survey of VN refs on the WEB. Ronn Smith provides some background.
I have read a couple of his books and the description below gives a good
sense of his work. DBJ
From: Ronn Smith <rsmith@risd.edu>
Re: Donald Barton Johnson's reference to Charles Willeford in post of 15
May 1995 ... Charles Willeford writes mysteries in the hard-boiled style
of Raymond Chandler. The bio included in The Burnt Orange Heresy (Black
Lizard Book, 1987) reads as follows: "Charles Willeford was a highly
decorated (Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Luxembourg Croix de
Guerre) tank commander with the Third Army in World War II. His memoir of
army life, Something About a Soldier, was published in 1986. He has also
been a professional horse trainer, boxer, radio announcer, and painter.
He studied art in Biarritz, France, and in Lima, Peru, and English at the
University of Miami. The author of a dozen collection of short stories
and more than a dozen novels, including the best-selling The Burnt Orange
Heresy, Cockfighter, Miami Blues, and New Hope for the Dead, the former
Californian now lives in Miami, Florida, because 'the crime rate --the
highest in the nation-- provides a writer with an exciting environment'."
The Burnt Orange Heresy was published originally in 1971. The jacket
cover for the Black Lizard edition includes this blurb from the Nashville
Tennesseean: "Nabokov would smile and approve." Small world.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The name of Charles Willeford came up in John Lavagnino's
recent survey of VN refs on the WEB. Ronn Smith provides some background.
I have read a couple of his books and the description below gives a good
sense of his work. DBJ
From: Ronn Smith <rsmith@risd.edu>
Re: Donald Barton Johnson's reference to Charles Willeford in post of 15
May 1995 ... Charles Willeford writes mysteries in the hard-boiled style
of Raymond Chandler. The bio included in The Burnt Orange Heresy (Black
Lizard Book, 1987) reads as follows: "Charles Willeford was a highly
decorated (Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Luxembourg Croix de
Guerre) tank commander with the Third Army in World War II. His memoir of
army life, Something About a Soldier, was published in 1986. He has also
been a professional horse trainer, boxer, radio announcer, and painter.
He studied art in Biarritz, France, and in Lima, Peru, and English at the
University of Miami. The author of a dozen collection of short stories
and more than a dozen novels, including the best-selling The Burnt Orange
Heresy, Cockfighter, Miami Blues, and New Hope for the Dead, the former
Californian now lives in Miami, Florida, because 'the crime rate --the
highest in the nation-- provides a writer with an exciting environment'."
The Burnt Orange Heresy was published originally in 1971. The jacket
cover for the Black Lizard edition includes this blurb from the Nashville
Tennesseean: "Nabokov would smile and approve." Small world.