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Learn about the life and career of Mickey Spillane, the "king of pulp fiction" and creator of Mike Hammer. Find out how he wrote comic books, novels, and films, and why he was controversial and influential.
Mickey Spillane was an Irish-American mobster who controlled Hell's Kitchen in New York in the 1960s and 1970s. He was involved in the Irish-Italian Mob War and was killed by the Gambino crime family in 1977.
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Jul 13, 2024 · Mickey Spillane was an American writer of detective fiction, whose popular work is characterized by violence and sexual licentiousness. Spillane began his career by writing for pulp magazines and comic books in order to pay for his schooling. His first novel—I, The Jury (1947)—introduced detective.
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Learn about the life and career of Mickey Spillane, the king of the pulp novelists in the post-WW II period, who sold 200 million copies globally. Find out how he created the hard-boiled P.I. genre with gory violence and sex, and how he was criticized and praised by literary critics.
- March 9, 1918
- July 17, 2006
Learn about the life and legacy of Mickey Spillane, the best-selling mystery writer of the postwar era and the creator of Mike Hammer. Discover his impact on hardboiled genre, his conversion to Jehovah's Witnesses, his second marriage and his film adaptations.
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