Bill Pronzini
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Bill Pronzini was born in Petaluma, California on April 13, 1943. His first novel, The Stalker, was published in 1971. He is best known for his creation of the Nameless Detective Mystery series, as well as several westerns and novels of dark suspense. He has been a full time writer since 1969. He visa mer is also an active anthologist, having compiled more than 100 collections, most of which focus on mystery, western, and science fiction short stories. He has won numerous awards including three Shamus Awards and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Mystery Writers of America. His book Snowbound received the Grand Prix de la Litterature Policiere, as the best crime novel published in France in 1988. Pronzini has established himself as a master of the Western novel as well as earning a name for himself in the dark fiction genre. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Bill Pronzini
Bug-Eyed Monsters: 13 Stories of Dripping, Creeping, Gurgling, Purling, Trilling, Oozing, Seeping, Gushing Deadly… (1980) — Redaktör; Bidragsgivare — 66 exemplar
The Web She Weaves: An Anthology of Mystery and Suspense Stories by Women (1983) — Redaktör — 51 exemplar
The Arbor House Treasury of Detective and Mystery Stories from the Great Pulps (1983) — Redaktör — 49 exemplar
Chapter and Hearse: Suspense Stories about the World of Books (1985) — Bidragsgivare; Redaktör — 49 exemplar
The Edgar Winners: 33rd Annual Anthology of the Mystery Writers of America (1980) — Redaktör — 44 exemplar
The Mystery Hall of Fame: An Anthology of Classic Mystery and Suspense Stories (1984) — Redaktör; Bidragsgivare — 31 exemplar
Academy Mystery Novellas: Women Sleuths, Police Procedurals, Locked Room Puzzles, Great British Detectives ( BOX Set) (1985) — Redaktör; Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
Best of the West III: More Stories That Inspired Classic Western Films (1990) — Redaktör — 11 exemplar
The Paradise Affair: A Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery (Carpenter and Quincannon, 9) (2021) 11 exemplar
The Western Hall of Fame: An Anthology of Classic Western Stories Selected by the Western Writers of America (1984) — Redaktör — 10 exemplar
Tricks and Treats: An Anthology of Mystery Stories by the Mystery Writers of America (1976) — Redaktör; Bidragsgivare — 9 exemplar
The Wickedest Show on Earth: A Carnival of Circus Suspense (1985) — Redaktör; Bidragsgivare — 7 exemplar
Torture Trek: And Eleven Other Action-Packed Stories of the Wild West (Barricade Classic Western) (1995) 6 exemplar
Los Mejores Relatos Policiacos Vol. 2 / The Arbor House Treasury of Mistery and Suspense (1981) 6 exemplar
Inaugural [short story] — Författare — 4 exemplar
Skeleton Rattle Your Mouldy Leg 3 exemplar
Proof of Guilt 3 exemplar
Incident in a Neighborhood Tavern 3 exemplar
Dry Spell [short story] 3 exemplar
The Pulp Connection 3 exemplar
I Wish I May, I Wish I Might [short story] 2 exemplar
Black Wind 2 exemplar
A Clone at Last 2 exemplar
The Giant book of short Crime Stories — Redaktör — 2 exemplar
Opening a Vein 2 exemplar
The Arrowmont Prison Riddle 2 exemplar
How Now Purple Cow [short story] 2 exemplar
Death of a Nobody 2 exemplar
Cache and Carry 2 exemplar
Schau mir in die Augen, Schnüffler. 13 Riesen- Stories. ( Schwarze Serie). (1995) — Redaktör — 2 exemplar
Black Lizard 1 exemplar
Memento Mori 1 exemplar
Paxton's World 1 exemplar
On the Nature of Time 1 exemplar
The Clincher [short story] 1 exemplar
The Pattern 1 exemplar
On Account of Darkness [short story] 1 exemplar
Do I Dare to Eat a Peach? 1 exemplar
Invitation To Murder 1 exemplar
Escape [short story] 1 exemplar
A treasury of World War 2 stories 1 exemplar
It's a Lousy World 1 exemplar
Caught In The Act 1 exemplar
Words Do Not a Book Make 1 exemplar
The Prophecy 1 exemplar
The Big Bite 1 exemplar
Bedeviled 1 exemplar
The Space Killers 1 exemplar
Sanctuary 1 exemplar
Changes 1 exemplar
The Hanging Man 1 exemplar
Two Weeks Every Summer 1 exemplar
Peekaboo 1 exemplar
A Craving for Originality 1 exemplar
Rebound 1 exemplar
His Name Was Legion 1 exemplar
Under the Skin 1 exemplar
Ein ganz besonderes Kaliber 1 exemplar
Smuggler's Island 1 exemplar
Putting The Pieces Back 1 exemplar
Multiples 1 exemplar
I Don't Understand It 1 exemplar
The Pattern 1 exemplar
A Lot On His Mind 1 exemplar
What Happened to Mary? 1 exemplar
Souls Burning [short story] 1 exemplar
Die Totenuhr 1 exemplar
Deathlove [short fiction] 1 exemplar
In der Kälte der Nacht 1 exemplar
Teuflische Pläne 1 exemplar
Gritos na Noite 1 exemplar
Bonecrack 1 exemplar
Something Wrong [short story] 1 exemplar
Nameless Detective series 1 exemplar
Possibilities 1 exemplar
Here Comes Santa Claus 1 exemplar
Coven 13 Mar '70 featuring I, Vampire! 1 exemplar
Dödens diamanter 1 exemplar
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100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories (1993) — Bidragsgivare; Bidragsgivare; Bidragsgivare — 205 exemplar
I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of the Great Writers (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 176 exemplar
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to Be Read with the Door Locked (1975) — Bidragsgivare — 158 exemplar
The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 118 exemplar
A Century of Great Western Stories-An Anthology of Western Fiction (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 100 exemplar
Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, Volume 7: Magical Wishes (1891) — Bidragsgivare — 90 exemplar
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Presents Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense (2006) — Bidragsgivare — 68 exemplar
Murder by the Book: Literary Mysteries from Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 66 exemplar
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: First Annual Collection (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 58 exemplar
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Second Annual Collection (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 45 exemplar
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Third Annual Collection (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 43 exemplar
Between the Dark and the Daylight and 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 40 exemplar
All but Impossible!: An Anthology of Locked Room and Impossible Crime Stories by Members of the Mystery Writers of… (1981) — Bidragsgivare — 29 exemplar
Mean Streets: The Second Private Eye Writers of America Anthology (1986) — Bidragsgivare — 23 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1980, Vol. 59, No. 2 (1980) — Författare — 18 exemplar
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: First Annual Edition (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 16 exemplar
The Eyes Have It: The First Private Eye Writers of America Anthology (1984) — Bidragsgivare — 15 exemplar
Eye for Justice: Third "Private Eye" Writers of America Anthology (1988) — Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
Justice for Hire: The Fourth Private Eye Writers of America Anthology (1990) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Second Annual Edition (1993) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1978, Vol. 55, No. 5 (1987) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1982, Vol. 63, No. 5 (1982) — Bidragsgivare — 11 exemplar
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Third Annual Edition (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 10 exemplar
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Seventh Annual Edition (1998) — Bidragsgivare — 9 exemplar
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Fifth Annual Edition (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 7 exemplar
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Sixth Annual Edition (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
Killers of the Mind: A Collection of Stories by the Mystery Writers of America (1974) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
Crimes and Misfortunes: The Anthony Boucher Memorial Anthology of Mysteries — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror (2019) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
Killer Crimes 2 exemplar
The Best Western Stories of Steve Frazee (The Western Writers Series) (1984) — Redaktör — 2 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Pronzini, William John
- Andra namn
- Davis, William Hart
Foxx, Jack
Jeffrey, William
Saxon, Alex - Födelsedag
- 1943-04-13
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Petaluma, California, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Petaluma, California, USA (birth)
- Utbildning
- Santa Rosa Junior College
- Yrken
- detective novelist
anthologist
journalist - Relationer
- Muller, Marcia (wife)
- Organisationer
- Petaluma Argus-Courier
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Grand Prix de la Litterature Policiere (best crime novel - Snowbound ∙ 1988)
Shamus Award (The Eye for Lifetime Achievement ∙ 1987)
MWA Grand Master (2008)
The Eye (Lifetime Achievement Award, PWA 1987) - Kort biografi
- William John Pronzini was born in Petaluma, California. He has been married three times. The first marriage was with Laura Patricia Adolphson, (1965 to 1967; divorce); the second was with Brunhilde Schier, July 28, 1972 (separated December 1985; divorce a couple years later). He married Marcia Muller (also a mystery writer) in 1992. They have collaborated on three novels: Beyond the Grave (1986), The Lighthouse, (1987); and Double (1984), a Nameless Detective novel, as well as on numerous anthologies. In 1987 he won The Eye, which is the Lifetime Achievement Award presented by The Private Eye Writers of America. It is a more exclusive version of their Shamus Award. He has been nominated three times by the Mystery Writers of America for an Edgar Award, and received their Grand Master designation in May of 2008.
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THE DEEP ONES: "The Girl With the Hungry Eyes" by Fritz Leiber i The Weird Tradition (april 2016)
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I think my enjoyment of this is reduced due to being unfamiliar with the western genre - and tbh some of the "bad" writing just sounded like I'd expect westerns to read like haha. There's also some examples of writing about "Indians" which is often racist and unpleasant sadly but unsurprisingly. Still, there's a decent amount of funny bad writing and it serves as a fun survey of the landscape of mass market Westerns in its own way. And there's some amazing concepts like the random phosphorescent crabs hiding in a volcano… (mer)
Similar to the first, marred by a chapter focusing on Charlie Chan movies?? He says how much he enjoyed them and then gives a bunch of quotes. He acknowledges the whole yellowface thing other aspects are pretty racist but goes ahead anyway. It's a really bizarre section because the quotes are INTENDED to be funny, which goes against the whole concept of the book. Obviously they're also very uncomfortable because of the racist broken English stuff. Very strange and uncomfortable addition.
Mostly though the book is more of the same as the first - parts are below the funny standard of the first book I think but that's to be expected and some of it is just as funny as the best of the first book.… (mer)
Mostly though the book is more of the same as the first - parts are below the funny standard of the first book I think but that's to be expected and some of it is just as funny as the best of the first book.… (mer)
A funny - sometimes laugh out loud so - recap of a bunch of unusually written books, including quotes; an odd kind of love letter to the whole pulp industry and those authors with alternative genius. It also gives a kind of whirlwind tour of the various crime/mystery genres (including the paperback original gothic, kind of strangely). There's something really fascinating to me about the whole system of churned out, hundreds of thousands of very similar words per year publishing and the book was really evocative of that even though it didn't go into much detail, just touched on it. The only problem I had with the book was really wanting more, heh - more plot details, more bad writing, more coverage of different areas of writing etc. Definitely looking forward to reading the sequel.
Note that the book covers a lot of stories which have racist themes or are pretty explicitly racist - he obviously doesn't endorse it but it could easily be uncomfortable to read.
Some random good quotes he gives that I highlighted while reading:
"I do, Ranny, I do and I am happy but I don't feel happy."
"I know, dear, and I feel the same way."
"In plain English, Patterson," said Pye, "nix on the gats!"
"This is verra, verra serious," he said, lapsing into his native tongue."
"I wanted to see the murderer of that beautiful creature seated in the gas chamber. I wanted it so bad my saliva glands throbbed."
"His eyes popped out of his pink-cake face and danced in the air."
"She went up in a puff of smoke, and a startling truth dribbled out of her explosion."
"She swayed toward me, a sob swelling her perky pretty-pretties"
"Drop that corpse, you fool!"
"Dan Turner squalling," I yeeped. "Flag your diapers to Sylvia Hempstead's igloo. There's been a croaking."
"A while ago you mentioned my hardboiled rep. You said I'm considered a dangerous hombre to monkey with. Okay, you're right. Now will you come along willingly or do I bunt you over the crumpet till your sneezer leaks buttermilk?"
my fav title he mentions is probably "Lady, That's My Skull". He also has a lot of great lines writing about the writing eg "This is the second atypical quality: the Mafia generally has better things to do than run amok in Gothic suspense novels, so you almost never find them in one"… (mer)
Note that the book covers a lot of stories which have racist themes or are pretty explicitly racist - he obviously doesn't endorse it but it could easily be uncomfortable to read.
Some random good quotes he gives that I highlighted while reading:
"I do, Ranny, I do and I am happy but I don't feel happy."
"I know, dear, and I feel the same way."
"In plain English, Patterson," said Pye, "nix on the gats!"
"This is verra, verra serious," he said, lapsing into his native tongue."
"I wanted to see the murderer of that beautiful creature seated in the gas chamber. I wanted it so bad my saliva glands throbbed."
"His eyes popped out of his pink-cake face and danced in the air."
"She went up in a puff of smoke, and a startling truth dribbled out of her explosion."
"She swayed toward me, a sob swelling her perky pretty-pretties"
"Drop that corpse, you fool!"
"Dan Turner squalling," I yeeped. "Flag your diapers to Sylvia Hempstead's igloo. There's been a croaking."
"A while ago you mentioned my hardboiled rep. You said I'm considered a dangerous hombre to monkey with. Okay, you're right. Now will you come along willingly or do I bunt you over the crumpet till your sneezer leaks buttermilk?"
my fav title he mentions is probably "Lady, That's My Skull". He also has a lot of great lines writing about the writing eg "This is the second atypical quality: the Mafia generally has better things to do than run amok in Gothic suspense novels, so you almost never find them in one"… (mer)
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