Three Great Americans
Three great Americans died on one day. One was hard-boiled cop author Ed McBain ("Sadie When She Died," "Fuzz," "Money, Money, Money"), a great American writer whose "hard, blunt prose could not disguise a sophisticated stylist who hated to be pigeonholed as a genre writer." The other was Evan Hunter ("The Blackboard Jungle," "Mothers and Daughters," "Last Summer"), an American who was a great writer.
The third was Salvatore Lombino, a great American success story, a postal worker's son who served in the U.S. Navy and changed his name, twice, believing that "prejudice against writers with foreign names" was keeping him out of print.
The third was Salvatore Lombino, a great American success story, a postal worker's son who served in the U.S. Navy and changed his name, twice, believing that "prejudice against writers with foreign names" was keeping him out of print.
