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Charles Ray Willeford III (January 2, 1919 – March 27, 1988) was an American writer. An author of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism. Willeford wrote a series of novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley.
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- Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, US
- January 2, 1919, Little Rock, Arkansas, US
Mar 29, 1988 · Charles R. Willeford 3d, a writer of crime novels featuring Hoke Moseley, a fictional Miami homicide detective, died of a heart attack Sunday at his home in South Miami. He was 69 years old.
Although his detectives do precious little detecting, Charles Willeford sparked the modern South Florida mystery craze
Oct 18, 2019 · A biography of the author of Miami Blues, a cult classic of off-kilter crime fiction. Learn about his life, war experiences, writing style, and legacy in the genre. Discover how he became a hot commodity after writing a comic thriller about a cop and a boxer in the '80s.
WILLEFORD, Charles 1919-1988. ( Will Charles, Charles Ray Willeford III ) PERSONAL: Born January 2, 1919, in Little Rock, AR; died of congestive heart failure, March 27, 1988, in Miami, FL; son of Charles Ray II and Aileen (Lowey) Willeford; married Mary Jo Norton (a professor of English), July 1, 1951 (divorced, October, 1976); married third ...
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Charles Willeford was a remarkably fine, talented and prolific writer who wrote everything from poetry to crime fiction to literary criticism throughout the course of his impressively long and diverse career. His crime novels are distinguished by a mean'n'lean sense of narrative economy and an admirable dearth of sentimentality.
Charles Willeford was a remarkably fine, talented, and prolific writer who wrote everything from poetry to crime fiction to literary criticism throughout the course of his impressively long and diverse career. His crime novels are distinguished by a mean'n'lean sense of narrative economy and an admirable dearth of sentimentality.
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