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Ed Lacy (August 25, 1911 - January 7, 1968), born Leonard S. Zinberg, was an American writer of crime and detective fiction. Lacy, who was Jewish American, is credited with creating "the first credible African American PI" character in fiction, Toussaint "Touie" Marcus Moore.
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ED LACY: NEW YORK CITY CRIME AUTHOR - by Ed Lynskey. On Sunday, January 7, 1968, crime author Leonard “Len” S. Zinberg, perhaps better known by his Ed Lacy pseudonym, suffered a fatal coronary in a laundromat near his 75 St. Nicholas Place residence in north Harlem. He was 56.
Ed Lacy has 112 books on Goodreads with 2761 ratings. Ed Lacy’s most popular book is Room to Swing (Toussaint Moore #1).
Genre. Mystery & Thrillers, Short Stories, Sports. edit data. Ed Lacy was the pseudonymn of Leonard (Len) S Zinberg, who was born in New York City on 25 August 1925. After his mother and father had divorced and his mother remarried, he spent his early years living in relative affluence in the outskirts of Harlem.
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Jan 7, 2013 · In fact, Ed Lacy was the pen name of a proletarian writer and lifelong communist named Leonard Zinberg (1911-1968) who, before he became Ed Lacy, was a promising literary writer whose work ...
Ed Lacy (August 25, 1911 – January 7, 1968), born Leonard “Len” S. Zinberg, was an American writer of crime and detective fiction. Lacy, who was white, is credited with creating “the first credible African-American PI” character in fiction, Toussaint “Touie” Marcus Moore.
Nov 4, 2022 · By the time Ed Lacy’s Room to Swing was published in 1957, a small but growing number of Black sleuths were featured in the world of American crime writing. In 1900, Pauline Hopkins, the Black editor of Colored American Magazine, published several crime fiction short stories.
