With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Evan Hunter
Fiction
1926 – 2005
- Biography/Description of Work
American author and screenwriter born Salvatore Albert Lombino, he legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952. His best-known novel is a story of violence in a New York high school, “The Blackboard Jungle” published in 1954 and adapted to film in 1955. While successful and well known as Evan Hunter, he was even better known as Ed McBain, a name he used for most of his crime fiction, beginning in 1956.
- Sources view
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_McBain, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Hunter_bibliography, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0402805/, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/276994/Evan-Hunter, http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jul/08/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries, http://www.edmcbain.com/default.asp, http://www.crimetime.co.uk/interviews/edmcbain.html Evan Hunter Article - New York Times - 1969-1-10, Evan Hunter Article - New York Times - 1973-5-6, Evan Hunter Article - New York Times - 1987-10-11, Evan Hunter Article - New York Times - 1995-4-30, Evan Hunter Article - New York Times - 2001-2-4, Evan Hunter Obituary - New York Times - 2005-7-7
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