Joseph Wambaugh

1937 -

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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

Award received: Edgar Awards

Official website: josephwambaugh.net

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Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh Jr. (born January 22, 1937) 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. He won three Edgar Awards, and was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. Source: Wikipedia (en)