Lawrence Block
1Roles
Raised in Buffalo, New York, he attended Antioch College but left before graduating, an early education that preceded a prolific apprenticeship in the 1950s soft-porn paperback market alongside Donald E. Westlake. The demanding pace of writing fifteen to twenty titles a year honed his ability to produce fully plotted novels with minimal revision, a skill later applied to crime fiction. His first s…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources