Stuart M. Kaminsky

Stuart Melvin Kaminsky ( born September 29, 1934 in Chicago, Illinois, † October 9, 2009 in St. Louis, Missouri ) was an American writer who is best known for his crime novels.

Curriculum vitae

Kaminsky studied journalism and English at the University of Illinois and rhetoric at Northwestern University, where he received his doctorate in communication in 1972. He was transferred to a professor and he taught there from 1973 to 1989 film production and film history, before moving to Sarasota at the Florida State University and head of the Conservatory of film and television production took over until 1994.

In the 70s he began writing crime novels, and his first protagonist was the detective Toby Peters. This got his fictitious orders from existing celebrities, most of whom came from the film business, as Errol Flynn, Gary Cooper and Charlie Chaplin, but also others such as Albert Einstein and Salvador Dalí.

Early 80s Kaminsky began to be interested in his Eastern European roots. The result was the inspiration for the series about the Russian inspector Porifirij Petrovich Rostnikov playing in Moscow. For the first novels of the series Rostnikov considerable research work was necessary because Kaminsky visited only in the late 80s for the first time Moscow. The fourth Rostnikov novel A Cold Red Sunrise (Eng. Cold Sun ), which was published in 1987, was Kaminsky's successful book. A third recurring character with autobiographical touches is Abe Lieberman, a Jewish policeman from Chicago, where Kaminsky had lived for a long time.

With sixty years, Stuart Kaminsky ended his teaching career and has since increased his literary activities. About 60 crime novels and 35 short stories he published from 1977 until his death. To this end, several biographies come from the film world (Gary Cooper, Clint Eastwood, John Huston and Don Siegel ) as well as non-fiction books also the subject of film. He also wrote film and television screenplays, he was dialogue -author of Once Upon a Time in America (1984) and wrote a series of Nero Wolfe series (2002), one of his favorite detectives. For literary offshoot of the detective series The Rockford Files - Just call he wore two novels in and CSI: New York, he wrote three more books from 2005.

Kaminsky in 2006 became chairman of the U.S. Crime Writers' Association Mystery Writers of America ( MWA), the six times he was nominated for the Edgar Award ( for three novels, two short stories and a nonfiction book ). Just over half the mystery novels by Stuart Kaminsky was translated into German. From 1984 to 1999, in particular its series with Toby Peters and Inspector Rostnikov were almost completely released in Germany.

Awards

Works

Toby Peters Series

Inspector Rostnikov series

Abe Lieberman series

Lew Fonesca series

Rockford Files series

Other

Anthologies

Filmography

Screenplay

Based Upon