Joseph Wambaugh

1937 -

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

genre: thriller

country of citizenship: United States of America

native language: English

languages spoken, written or signed: American English, English

educated at: California State University, Los Angeles, Chaffey High School

occupation: writer, novelist, screenwriter, actor, film producer

award received: Edgar Awards

official website: josephwambaugh.net

Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr. (born January 22, 1937) is a best-selling 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. He has been nominated for four Edgar Awards (winning three), and was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. Source: Wikipedia (en)