| Mickey
Spillane
Frank Morrison
Spillane (March
9, 1918 – July 17, 2006) American
thriller writer, master of "hard
boiled" style peppered with sex
and sadism. Spillane is best-known for
his private detective Mike Hammer, who
appeared in his first published book
I, THE JURY (1947). The hardback
edition did not sell well, but the
paperback became a world-wide
phenomenon. In the character of
Hammer, the most chauvinist avenger
among classical private eyes, Spillane
created a dark counterpart to the
knightly Philip Marlowe.
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"The
biggest part of the joke is the punch
line, so the biggest part of a book
should be the punch line, the ending.
People don't read a book to get to the
middle, they read a book to get to the
end and hope that the ending justifies
all the time they spent reading it. So
what I do is, I get my ending and,
knowing what my ending is going to be,
then I write to the end and have the
fun of knowing where I'm going but not
how I'm going to get there." (Spillane
in Speaking
of Murder,
Mickey Spillane died
July 17, 2006 at his home in Murrells
Inlet, South Carolina, aged 88 from
pancreatic cancer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Spillane |
