William Heffernan
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William Heffernan is an American
novelist born in New Haven, Connecticut
. Before becoming a novelist, Heffernan was an investigative reporter for the New York Daily News
.http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=atpHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CowDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6180,3971449&dq=william-heffernan+daily-news&hl=en For that work he was thrice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize
. Heffernan left journalism in 1978 after receiving his first book contract for the novel Broderick. He has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize three times. He won the Heywood Broun Award twice, received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and has received a number of other local, state and regional honors. William Heffernan has received the Edgar Award, is a member of the Authors Guild, The Mystery Writers of America, and was once President of the International Association of Crime Writers. The film rights for the The Dinosaur Club were sold to Warner Bros in 1997 for $1 million.
United States
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novelist born in New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven is the second-largest city in Connecticut and the sixth-largest in New England. According to the 2010 Census, New Haven's population increased by 5.0% between 2000 and 2010, a rate higher than that of the State of Connecticut, and higher than that of the state's five largest cities, and...
. Before becoming a novelist, Heffernan was an investigative reporter for the New York Daily News
New York Daily News
The Daily News of New York City is the fourth most widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 605,677, as of November 1, 2011....
.http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=atpHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CowDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6180,3971449&dq=william-heffernan+daily-news&hl=en For that work he was thrice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
. Heffernan left journalism in 1978 after receiving his first book contract for the novel Broderick. He has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize three times. He won the Heywood Broun Award twice, received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and has received a number of other local, state and regional honors. William Heffernan has received the Edgar Award, is a member of the Authors Guild, The Mystery Writers of America, and was once President of the International Association of Crime Writers. The film rights for the The Dinosaur Club were sold to Warner Bros in 1997 for $1 million.
Works
- Broderick (1980)
- Caging the Raven (1981)
- The Corsican (1983)
- Acts of Contrition (1986)
- Blood Rose (a Paul Devlin series book) (1988)
- Ritual (a Paul Devlin series book) (1989)
- Corsican Honor (1991)
- Scarred (a Paul Devlin series book) (1992)
- Tarnished Blue (a Paul Devlin series book) (winner of the Edgar AwardEdgar AwardThe Edgar Allan Poe Awards , named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America...
for best paperback original) (1993) - Winter's Gold (a Paul Devlin series book) (1995)
- The Dinosaur Club (1997)
- Cityside (1997)
- Red Angel (a Paul Devlin series book) (1999)
- Beulah Hill (2000)
- Unholy Order (a Paul Devlin series book) (2000)
- A Time Gone By (2003)
- The Dead Detective" (2010)
Translations
- A Time Gone By has been translated into PolishPolish languagePolish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
: Czas Przeszly, Wydawnictwo "Amber" WarsawWarsawWarsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
, 2004