Richard Martin Stern

Born in Fresno, California, Stern launched his literary career in the 1950s with a series of private-investigator mysteries, a debut that earned the 1959 Edgar Award for Best First Novel for The Bright Road to Fear. He later shifted toward disaster-themed suspense, achieving his greatest fame with the 1973 novel The Tower, a story of a catastrophic fire in a newly built metal-and-glass skyscraper… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources