A Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, Lawrence Block is a four-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe and Shamus Awards, as well as a recipient of prizes in France, Germany, and Japan. The author of more than fifty books and numerous short stories, he is a devout New Yorker who spends much of his time traveling.
Lawrence Block was born in Buffalo, New York in 1938. He attended Antioch College in Ohio then went to work in the mailroom of a New York publisher. His first story was published in 1957 and he has gone on to write more than thirty novels and countless stories and articles, not just under his own name but also as Paul Kavanagh. Indeed Lawrence Block has had several pseudonyms having learned his writer's art crafting erotic literature as Andrew Shaw, Sheldon Lord and Jill Emerson!
In 1994 Lawrence Block won the Mystery Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and has also won Edgar, Shamus, and Maltese Falcon awards for his work. In 2004 Lawrence Block was awarded the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for a lifetime's achievement in crime writing.
During his prolific writing life Lawrence Block has created several popular yet quite distinct character series. His first popular novels featured Evan Tanner, a veteran of the Korean war who doesn't sleep due to shrapnel lodged in his brain. Then there are the 'Burglar' novels featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr, a sophisticated New York bookstore owner not averse to a little breaking and entering on the side, with a lesbian sidekick who owns a pet grooming business.
In a darker mode Block's Matt Scudder novels feature a recovering alcoholic whose progress and change is charted over several novels, set in an urban landscape marked by dives, late night bars, clubs, lounges, taverns and gin joints. Private investigator Scudder patrols the decaying inner city and endeavours to keep in check his own inner devils. Other central characters include criminal lawyer Martin Ehrengraf who features in his short stories, a sex-mad teenager called Chip Harrison and a hit man named Keller.
Awards
Shamus Awards Best Novel winner (1983) : Eight Million Ways to Die
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (1990) : Out on the Cutting Edge
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (1991) : A Ticket to the Boneyard
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (1992) : A Dance at the Slaughterhouse
Edgar Awards Best Novel winner (1992) : A Dance at the Slaughterhouse
Shamus Awards Best Novel winner (1994) : The Devil Knows You're Dead
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (1995) : A Long Line of Dead Men
Edgar Awards Best Novel nominee (1995) : A Long Line of Dead Men
Series
Lou Largo (with William Ard)
Babe in the Woods (1960)
Evan Tanner
1. The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep (1966)
2. The Cancelled Czech (1966)
3. Tanner's Twelve Swingers (1967)
4. Two for Tanner (1968) aka The Scoreless Thai
5. Tanner's Tiger (1968)
6. Here Comes a Hero (1968) aka Tanner's Virgin
7. Me Tanner, You Jane (1970)
8. Tanner on Ice (1998)Chip Harrison (writing as Chip Harrison)
No Score (1970)
Chip Harrison Scores Again (1971) aka Chip Harrison Scores Again
Make Out with Murder (1974) aka Five Little Rich Girls
The Topless Tulip Caper (1975)Matthew Scudder
When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (1973)
In the Midst of Death (1976)
The Sins of the Fathers (1976)
Time to Murder and Create (1979)
A Stab in the Dark (1981)
Eight Million Ways to Die (1982)
Out on the Cutting Edge (1989)
A Ticket to the Boneyard (1990)
A Dance at the Slaughterhouse (1991)
A Walk Among the Tombstones (1992)
The Devil Knows You're Dead (1993)
A Long Line of Dead Men (1994)
Even the Wicked (1996)
Everybody Dies (1998)
Hope to Die (2001)
All the Flowers Are Dying (2005)Bernie Rhodenbarr
Burglars Can't Be Choosers (1977)
The Burglar in the Closet (1978)
The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling (1979)
The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza (1980)
The Burglar Who Painted like Mondrian (1983)
The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams (1994)
The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart (1995)
The Burglar in the Library (1997)
The Burglar in the Rye (1999)
The Burglar Who Dropped in on Elvis (2000)
The Burglar on the Prowl (2004)Keller
1. Hit Man (1998)
2. Hit List (2000)
3. Hit Parade (2006)
4. Hit and Run (2007)Novels
The Specialists (1960)
Kept (1960) (writing as Sheldon Lord)
The Case of the Pornographic Photos (1961) aka Markham / You Could Call it Murder
Death Pulls a Doublecross (1961) aka Coward's Kiss
Mona (1961) aka Sweet Slow Death / Grifter's Game
Warm and Willing (1964) (writing as Jill Emerson)
Enough of Sorrow (1965) (writing as Jill Emerson)
The Girl with the Long Green Heart (1965)
Such Men Are Dangerous (1969) (writing as Paul Kavanagh)
After the First Death (1969)
Threesome (1970) (writing as Jill Emerson)
The Triumph of Evil (1971) (writing as Paul Kavanagh)
Ronald Rabbit Is a Dirty Old Man (1971)
Sensuous (1972) (writing as Jill Emerson)
The Trouble with Eden (1973) (writing as Jill Emerson)
Not Comin' Home to You (1974) (writing as Paul Kavanagh)
A Week As Andrea Benstock (1975) (writing as Jill Emerson)
Ariel (1979)
Deadly Honeymoon (1981)
Code of Arms (1982)
Into the Night (1987) (with Cornell Woolrich)
Random Walk (1988)
The Perfect Murder: Five Great Mystery Writers Create the Perfect Crime (1991) (with Sarah Caudwell, Tony Hillerman and Jack Hitt)
Batman's Helpers (1999)
The Lost Cases of Ed London (2001)
Cinderella Sims (2002)
Small Town: A Novel of New York (2002)
Lucky at Cards (2007)
A Diet of Treacle (2008)Non-fiction
Telling Lies For Fun and Profit (1981)
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