George Pelecanos
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A Washington, D.C. native of Greek descent, he launched his writing career drawing on the techniques of Leonard, Hammett and Chandler. Early novels featured the Greek private eye Nick Stefanos, while later works such as the D.C. Quartet expanded his scope to multi-decade portraits of the city, earning the Hammett Prize for The Turnaround and a Gumshoe Award for Hell to Pay. Parallel to his novels,…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources