For the U.S. federal judge, see Lawrence J. Block.
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Lawrence Block
Block in 2008
Born
(1938-06-24) June 24, 1938 (age 85) Buffalo, New York, U.S.
Pen name
Chip Harrison, Paul Kavanagh, Lee Duncan, Sheldon Lord, others
Occupation
Novelist, short story writer
Period
1958–present
Genre
Crime fiction, mystery fiction
Website
lawrenceblock.com
Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York-set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. Block was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1994. Block has written in the genres of crime, mystery, and suspense fiction for more than half a century, releasing over 100 books.[1]
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well as in the 1999 mystery story anthology Master's Choice, edited by LawrenceBlock. Told from the viewpoint of a bandleader during Prohibition, the story...
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IMDb. Archived from the original on 2021-06-07. Retrieved 2021-11-23. LawrenceBlock (2006). The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-087276-4...
collaborated on crime fiction-related acrostics with Michael Z. Lewin and with LawrenceBlock and others for The Perfect Murder. She also wrote a play, The Madman's...
the Fathers, a Matthew Scudder detective novel published in 1976 by LawrenceBlock The Sins of Our Fathers, a 1970 analysis of the origins of The Troubles...
Crime), an anthology edited by LawrenceBlock and featuring works inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper (1882–1967). Block is a favorite writer of Ferguson's...
"Business: Willie Sutton, Bankers' Friend". Time. October 26, 1970. LawrenceBlock (2004). Gangsters, Swindlers, Killers, and Thieves: The Lives and Crimes...
several historical novels including A Long Line of Dead Men (1999) by LawrenceBlock, Cold Hit (2001) by Linda Fairstein and Michael Walsh's And All the...
Starkweather–Fugate murders. The novel Not Comin' Home to You (1974) by LawrenceBlock has fictional events that are similar to the Starkweather and Fugate...
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