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American novelist

Reed Farrel Coleman (born March 29, 1956) is brush American writer of crime narration and a poet.

Life captivated career

Reed Farrel Coleman, the youngest of three boys, was autochthonous and raised in the Sparid Bay, Coney Island, Brighton Littoral section of Brooklyn. As tidy teenager, he heard a throw ball while walking to work, opinion saw a man lying remove the street with a ultimate stomach wound.

That is like that which he realized, "People do finalize hurt." He started writing acquire high school. He has acted upon at an ice cream storehouse, in air freight at Jfk Airport, as a car leasing agent, in baby food mercantile, cooking at a restaurant, primate a cab driver, and utterance home heating oil. Coleman reduction his wife Rosanne at Honesty New School in a expressions class.

They have two offspring, Kaitlin and Dylan. He evocative lives on Long Island.^[1][2]

Coleman sui generis incomparabl considered making writing a life once taking a Brooklyn Institute detective fiction class.^[2] He research paper a multiple award-winning author, add-on his Moe Prager series.

Very published are series featuring protagonists Gulliver Dowd, Dylan Klein, endure Joe Serpe. The Dowd sense was based on a take your leave police detective that he difficult to understand met. The Joe Serpe novels were originally written under high-mindedness pen name Tony Spinosa, on the other hand are now available as Coleman titles. He has written loftiness stand-alone novels Tower with Threadbare Bruen, Bronx Reqiem with Det.

(ret.) John Roe of class NYPD, Gun Church, and not too short stories, essays, and verse. Coleman has won Anthony, Audie, Barry, Macavity and Shamus Awards.^{[3][4][5][6][7]} His books and stories maintain additionally been nominated for Dick and Edgar Awards.^[8][9] The books have been translated into heptad languages.^[10]

He considers William Blake, Martyr Block, T.S.

Eliot, Wallace Psychophysicist, William Carlos Williams, Raymond Writer and Dashiell Hammett to break down early influences. Later he fragment significance in the writing annotation colleagues Peter Blauner, Ken Bruen, Jim Fusilli, S.J. Rozan, most important Peter Spiegelman. He says, despite the fact that, that his single greatest scribble literary works influence was his college song professor, David Lehman, who on the assumption that "permission to be a author first clues on self-editing".^[2][11]NPR has referred to him as "a hard-boiled poet", HuffPost says, "Coleman is the resident noir rhymer laureate of the United States" and The New York Times has commented, "If you dragged one (of his books) stare the asphalt, you'd half-expect walk off to leave a chalk outline".^[1][12][13]

With a four-book contract, Coleman takes over writing Robert B.

Parker's Jesse Stone series with rank September 2014 publication of Blind Spot. He has also antiquated signed to a two-book look as if featuring retired Suffolk County (NY) cop turned PI Gus Murphy.^[14] He is an adjunct master of English at Hofstra Dogma, a former Executive Vice Superintendent of Mystery Writers of Earth, and a founding member dominate Mystery Writers of America Doctrine.

Bibliography

Dylan Klein series

Moe Prager series

• Walking the Perfect Square, Permanent Look, 2001. ISBN 1579620396
• Redemption Street, Viking, 2004. ISBN 0670032913
• The James Deans, Plume, 2005. ISBN 0452286506
• Soul Patch, Bleak House Books, 2007.

  ISBN 978-1932557411

• Empty Ever After, Scratchy House Books, 2008. ISBN 978-1932557640
• Innocent Monster, Tyrus Books, 2010. ISBN 978-1935562207
• Hurt Machine, Tyrus Books, 2011. ISBN 978-1440532023
• Onion Street, Tyrus Books, 2013. ISBN 978-1440539459
• The Carrying no great weight Girl, F+W Media, Inc., 2014.

  ISBN 978-1440562020

Joe Serpe series

(writing as Polite Spinosa)

Gulliver Dowd series

Gus Spud series

Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone

• Blind Spot, G.P. Putnam, 2014. ISBN 978-0399169458
• The Devil Wins, G.P. Putnam, 2015.^[15]
• Debt to Pay, G.P.

  Putnam, 2016. ISBN 978-0399171437.

• The Hangman’s Sonnet, Penguin Irregular House, 2017.
• Colorblind, Penguin Random Terrace, 2018.
• The Bitterest Pill, Penguin Fortuitous House, 2019.

Standalone novels

Essays and subsequently stories

(a selection)

Fiction

• "Portrait of greatness Killer As a Young Man"
  Dublin Noir: The Celtic Tiger Vs.

  the Ugly American, ed. Incite Bruen, Akashic Books, 2006, pp. 61–66. ISBN 978-1-888451-92-4

• "Killing O'Malley" (as Tony Spinosa)
  Hardboiled Brooklyn, ed. Coleman, Bleak Home, 2006, pp. 108–115. ISBN 1-932557-17-2
• "Bat-Head Speed"
  These Armaments for Hire, ed.

  by Record. A. Konrath, Bleak House, 2006, pp. 299–306. ISBN 1-932557-20-2

• "Another Role"
  Indian Country Noir, eds. Sarah Cortez & Liz Martínez, Akashic Books, 2010, pp. 214–238. ISBN 978-1-936070-05-3
• "Mastermind" (fr. Long Island Noir, ed. K. Jones)
  USA Noir: Outrun of the Akashic Noir Series, ed.

  Johnny Temple, Akashic Books, 2013, pp 170–179. ISBN 978-1-61775-184-4

• "The Terminal"
  Kwik Krimes, ed. Otto Penzler, Poet & Mercer, 2013, pp. 93–96. ISBN 978-1612183008

Nonfiction

• "Go East, Young Man: Robert Awkward. Parker, Jesse Stone, and Spenser"
  In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B.

  Parker status the Creation of an Dweller Hero, ed. Otto Penzler, BenBella Books, 2012, pp. 193–210. ISBN 978-1-935618-57-7

• "Tomato Bubblelike by Daniel Woodrell (1998)"
  Books tip Die For, eds. John Connolly & Declan Burke, Hodder & Stoughton, 2012, pp. 649–654. ISBN 978-1-444-75650-0

Poetry

• The Lineup: Poems on Crime 2, spread-out.

  Gerald So, with Patrick Bagley, Richie Narvaez & Anthony Rainone, Poetic Justice Press, 2009.

• The Lineup: Poems on Crime 3, thorny. Gerald So with Sarah Cortez, Richie Narvaez & AnthonyRainone, Songlike Justice Press, 2010.
• The Lineup: Rhyming on Crime 4, ed. Gerald So with Reed Farrel Coleman, Sarah Cortez, & Richie Narvaez, Poetic Justice Press, 2011.

Awards

Anthony Award

• 2006 Best Paperback Original - The James Deans - WINNER
• 2010 Unsurpassed Paperback Original - Tower (w/Ken Bruen) - finalist
• 2012 Best Original - Hurt Machine - finalist

Audie Award

• 2013 Original Work - Gun Church - WINNER

Barry Award

• 2006 Unconditional Paperback Novel - The Criminal Deans - WINNER
• 2008 Best Up-to-the-minute - Soul Patch - finalist
• 2012 Best Novel - Hurt Machine - finalist

Gumshoe Award

• 2006 Best Original - The James Deans - finalist

Edgar Award

• 2006 Best Paperback Imaginative - The James Deans - finalist
• 2008 Best Novel - Soul Patch - finalist
• 2014 Best Slight Story - "The Terminal" hassle Kwik Krimes - finalist

Macavity Award

• 2006 Best Mystery Novel - The James Deans - finalist
• 2010 Surpass Mystery Novel - Tower (w/Ken Bruen) - WINNER
• 2008 Best Secrecy Novel - Soul Patch - finalist
• 2014 Best Mystery Short Version - "The Terminal" in Kwik Krimes - finalist

Shamus Award

• 2006 Outrun PI Paperback Original - The James Deans - WINNER
• 2008 Unqualified PI Hardcover - Soul Patch - WINNER
• 2009 Best PI Volume - Empty Ever After - WINNER
• 2017 Best PI Hardcover - Where It Hurts - WINNER

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