Mickey spillane biography

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    A writer, pure and simple

    (This obituary first appeared in The Star-Ledger of Newark, July 18, )



    The roar of the shook the room. Charlotte staggered back a step. Her eyes were a symphony of incredulity, an unbelieving witness to truth. Slowly, she looked down at the ugly swelling in her naked belly where the bullet went in.

    "How could you?" she gasped.

    I had only a moment before talking to a corpse, but I got it in.

    "It was easy," I said.




        With that final paragraph from his first novel, 's "I, the Jury," Mickey Spillane made his bones.

    Spillane's books - with their then-startling mix of sex, sadism and gunplay - redefined the detective story for the post-World War II generation, and made him one of the top-selling American authors of all time. Most of his more than two dozen novels featured his harder-than-hard-boiled detective slang för mikrofon Hammer, who battled, gangsters, goons and Communists with equal ferocity, often aided by his adoring secretar

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    Mickey Spillane

    American crime novelist (–)

    For the gangster, see Mickey Spillane (mobster).

    Mickey Spillane

    Spillane in the "Publish or Perish" episode of Columbo in

    BornFrank Morrison Spillane
    ()March 9,
    Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
    DiedJuly 17, () (aged&#;88)
    Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, U.S.
    Occupation
    Period–
    GenreHardboiledcrime fiction, detective fiction
    Notable awardsInkpot Award ()[1]
    SpouseMary Ann Pearce (), Sherri Malinou (), Jane Rogers Johnson ()

    Frank Morrison Spillane (; March 9, &#;&#; July 17, ), better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American crime novelist, called the "king of pulp fiction".[2] His stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than million copies of his books have sold internationally. Spillane was also an occasional actor, once even playing Hammer himself in the film The Girl Hunters.[3][4]

    Early life

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    Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction

    February 12,
    Mickey Spillane was a complicated man. Known by many as the creator of the iconic and influential character Mike Hammer, he is known by others primarily for a lengthy series of Miller Lite beer commercials. He earned a reputation as an edgy, hard-living, man’s man and yet was known to friends and family as kind, considerate, and willing to give a stranger the shirt off his back. His sense of humor was as evident as his legendary hard-punching, revenge-oriented, justice-delivering hero Mike Hammer.

    I grew up after Spillane’s zenith and really only knew him via his reputation. In fact, I came to this biography not because of any great desire to learn about him and his work, (although I felt that would be interesting) but rather because I am a big fan of co-author Max Allan Collins (MAC) and his large body of work. I knew MAC had completed many of Spillane’s novels and stories after Spillane’s passing, a huge undertaking based on Spillane’s