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Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh Jr. (born January 22, 1937) [1] is an American writer known for his fictional and nonfictional accounts of police work in the United States. Many of his novels are set in Los Angeles and its surroundings and feature Los Angeles police officers as protagonists.
Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr is a best selling American author famous for both fictional and non-fictional work on the police in the United States. He was born on January 22, 1937 in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Joseph Wambaugh is known as the Grand Master of Police Novels. A 14-yer veteran of The Los Angeles Police Department.
Sep 15, 2019 · Sixteen of Wambaugh’s books are fiction, five non-fiction (the latter includes “Lines and Shadows,” about a border-crimes task force run by the San Diego police).
Jun 23, 2022 · JOSEPH WAMBAUGH: A COP, CREATIVE WRITING GENIUS, AND AWARD-WINNING BOOK, TELEVISION, AND MOVIE SCREENPLAY WRITER AND CONSULTANT, ON HIS CAREER AND POLICING IN AMERICA TODAY. By Lori Cooper.
Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr. ( Jan 22, 1937-- ) transformed the sub-genre of the police novel into serious writing that was both harrowing and humorous, comic and tragic. His first four books and his work on the Police Story television series in the 1970s, set new standards for subsequent writers, and many acknowledge their debt to him.
Joseph Wambaugh, a former LAPD detective sergeant (1960-1974), is the bestselling author of twenty-one prior works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Choirboys and The Onion Field. Wambaugh joined the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in 1960.