Ed Lacy

Ed Lacy ( born August 25, 1911 † January 7, 1968 ), born as Leonard " Len " S. Zinberg was an American writer, who is primarily known for his crime novels and detective stories in Germany. He used the pseudonym Steve also wrote in April and early years under his birth name.

Life

Ed Lacy was born as the son of Elizabeth and Max Zinberg in New York City. The marriage of Lacy's parents failed after a few years. Elizabeth Zinberg marry after the lawyer Maxwell Wyckoff, bank employee and a graduate of Yale University. Ed Lacy was then 10 years old. The late twenties he attended the City College of New York. He then wandered through various U.S. states and thereby denied his living by doing odd jobs. 1940 Lacy returned to New York and marry his wife Esther with whom he a - potentially adopted - daughter named Carla.

Many of his early short stories he published under his birth name Leonard Zinberg already in his thirties, mainly in literary magazines, such as in Story magazine or Coronet. Thrilling Sports, a sports magazine, printed its second Boxer Story; great recognition certified to him later due to enormous technical expertise and competence of boxing. He was a member of the League of American Writers.

After the Second World War until his death, Ed Lacy continued to work as much writing, freelance writer, partially dependent financially on his family. In his excellent with the Edgar Award detective novel Room to Swing Lacy did act as a black private investigator protagonist as first author with Toussaint " Touie " Marcus Moore. His political self- understanding, he left accordingly usually black private eyes but also other oppressed minorities in his view, the main role in his books. Although white New Yorkers Jewish faith immerse his stories in the collections of colored authors, such as in the story The Right Thing in the anthology The Best Short Stories by African- American Writers, 1925-1950 ( Meador Pub. Co., Publishers, Boston 1950).

Ed Lacy had a heart condition and had already before 1960 a first heart attack. He died at the age of 56 years to a massive heart attack in a laundromat near his home in Harlem.

Awards

Works

Novels

(as Ed Lacy )

David Wintino series

Toussaint M. Moore Series

Lee Hayes series

Standalones

Short stories

Ed Lacy in anthologies

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