Gar Anthony Haywood

Gar Anthony Haywood is an American author of crime fiction. He was born in Los Angeles in 1954, and worked as a computer technician for over a decade before he started publishing novels.[1]

Fear Of The Dark (1988) won the Shamus Award for best first Private Investigator novel.[2] It also spawned a long-running series that featured the protagonist Aaron Gunner. The Aaron Gunner books are hardboiled detective fiction, inspired by Ross Macdonald's Los Angeles novels. Haywood also wrote several standalone thrillers, as well as a pair of light, comic mysteries.[1]

Haywood has also written numerous screenplays for television, including an episode of New York Undercover and the TV movie adaptation of Bad As I Wanna Be, the autobiography of basketball player Dennis Rodman[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Gar Anthony Haywood". Mysterious Press. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
  2. ↑ "The Shamus Award". Thrilling Detective. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "Gar Anthony Haywood". IMDB. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
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