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Joseph (Aloysius) Wambaugh, (Jr.) | | Variant Name: |
Joseph Wambaugh, Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr., Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Joseph (Aloysius) Wambaugh, Jr. | | Birth Date: |
January 22, 1937 | | Nationality: |
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 Biography of Joseph (Aloysius) Wambaugh, (Jr.)
2,067 words, approx. 7 pages
 A former detective sergeant in the Los Angeles Police Department, Joseph Wambaugh is the author of five best-selling novels about cops. Wambaugh's first three books, written while he was a policeman, are serious, straightforward, and realistic accounts... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Joseph Wambaugh Information
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 Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr. (born January 22, 1937, in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American writer known for his fictional and non-fictional accounts of police work in the United States. The son of a police officer, Wambaugh joined the U.S....
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 Daily Variety Kelley cops Wambaugh police tale.(David E. Kelley, Joseph Wambaugh )
10/04/2006: 431 words, approx. 1 pages David E. Kelley is teaming with Joseph Wambaugh to create a police drama based on Wambaugh's novel "Hollywood Station," which Little, Brown releases in November. Scribe-producer's 20th Century Fox TV-based David E. Kelley Prods. has acquired rights to the book, which chronicles... summary from source:
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 AP News 'Onion Field' killer dead at 76
4/8/2007: 336 words, approx. 1 pagesJimmy Lee Smith, the lifelong criminal whose role in the 1963 kidnapping and killing of a police officer inspired Joseph Wambaugh's true-life crime novel "The Onion Field," has died in jail at age 76, a state prisons official said.Smith died Friday at the Pitchess Detention... summary from source:
AP News Today in history - Jan. 22
1/22/2007: 545 words, approx. 2 pagesToday is Sunday, Jan. 22, the 22nd day of 2007. There are 343 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 22, 1917, President Wilson pleaded for an end to war in Europe, calling for "peace without victory." (By April, however, America also was...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Jerome Charyn
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[In "Black Marble" Joseph Wambaugh] has created a detective, Andrei Mikhailovich Valnikov, who is almost as touching, variable and bravely idiotic as Nabokov's Professor Pnin…. Valnikov isn't one of Wambaugh's familiar "centurions," "choirboys," or "blue knights." He's the "black marble," the loser, the bad-luck piece. (p. 11)
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