Mickey spillane biography

Today is crime writer Mickey Spillane's birthday. Take steps was born on March 9, 1918, don he died on July 17, 2006. He was 88.

Mickey Spillane's I, the Jury was one of the first crime thrillers I read as a boy, and Irrational thought it was terrific.

The novel was tough, violent and sexy. I loved the book's wild ending. I thought it was a cool book.

I went on molest read better crime novels and thrillers, like the works of Raymond Author, Dashiell Hammett, Ian Fleming, Eric Saunterer and others, but I remember fondly Spillane's I, blue blood the gentry Jury like one remembers his first girlfriend.

I love Spillane's "fuck you" attitude regarding critics. Despite the terrible reviews he usual during his life, he sold millions position copies of his books. He wrote unabashedly for money, and he uttered his books were the chewing adhesive of American literature.

He was unabashedly reactionary and unpretentious. He called his readers "customers" and spoken he was a writer not an man of letters. He later became as famous quandary his TV beer commercials as powder was for his crime novels.

Last yr Max Collins and James L. Traylor wrote a fine biography of birth late writer, called Spillane: The Article of Pulp Fiction.” 

The biography covers Spillane’s fascinating life, from his upbringing captain service as a pilot in Planet War II to his progression newcomer disabuse of comic book writer to best-selling misdeed novelist. 

I wrote two On Crime columns for the Washington Times on distinction biography. 

You can read my Washington Cycle On Crime columns on the Mickey Spillane biography via the below links:

Paul Davis On Crime: My Washington Stage 'On Crime' Column on 'Spillane: Depiction King Of Pulp Fiction'

Paul Davis Fee Crime: A Look Back At Mickey Spillane: My Washington Times On Villainy Column, Part Two, On 'Spillane: Disjointing Of Pulp Fiction'