John Franklin Bardin
John Franklin Bardin ( born November 30, 1916 in Cincinnati, Ohio; † 9 July 1981 in New York City, New York) was an American writer. He became known through crime novels with a psychological background, which he wrote mainly in the 40s and 50s of the 20th century.
Life
Bardin grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father, a coal dealer, died already in his childhood. The older sister died a year before the Father of blood poisoning. His mother, an office worker, suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, which had a formative influence on the early novels John Franklin Bardins. He was married twice and had two children from his first marriage.
After completion of the Walnut Hills High School in his hometown Bardin first began to study engineering at the University of Cincinnati. Due to financial hardships, however, he abandoned his studies in the first year and took various auxiliary works.
Soon after, Bardin went to New York City where he from 1944 a permanent job at the advertising agency Edwin Bird Wilson Inc. got where he eventually rose to become vice president. In 1963, he left the agency. Already since 1961 Bardin taught at the New School for Social Research in the subject " Creative Writing ". This teaching, he maintained he held until 1966. He then worked in New York as an editor for various newspapers, including journals of the United Negro College Fund and the United Jewish Appeal for New York.
Between 1972 and 1974 Bardin went to Chicago, where he worked as chief editor of the magazine Today's Health of the American Medical Association. In 1974 he moved back to New York, where he died in 1981 at the Beth Israel Medical Center.
Works
- Under his own name: The deadly Percheron. (1946 ) German edition: The Devil's Wheel. Edition Sven Bergh, 1979. Translator Werner Pete Rich.
- The Last of Philip Banter. (1947 ) German edition: Confession in installments. Edition Sven Bergh, 1980. Translator Werner Pete Rich.
- Devil take the blue -tail fly. (1948 ) German edition: the bear pit. Edition Sven Bergh, 1981. Translator Werner Pete Rich.
- The Burning Glass. (1950)
- Christmas Comes but Once a Year. (1954)
- Purloining Tiny. (1978)
- Under the pseudonym Gregory Tree: The Case Against Myself. (1950)
- The Case Against Butterfly. (1951)
- So Young To Die. (1952)
- Under the pseudonym Douglas Ashe: A Shroud For Grandmama. (1951 ); umbetitelt The Long Street Legacy. (1970)
Awards
1976 John Franklin Bardin received the Swedish Crime price.