Occupation Writer Role Author Name Bill Crider | Period 1986-present Nationality American Spouse Judy Crider (m. 1965) | |
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Pen name Jack MacLane, Jack Buchanan Genre Mystery, Western, Horror, Children's Education University of Texas at Austin Awards Anthony Award for Best First Novel, Anthony Award for Best Short Story Nominations Edgar Award for Best Short Story, Shamus Award for Best First P. I. Novel Books Murder of a Beauty Shop Qu, Half in Love with Artful Dea, Compound Murder: A Dan Rho, The Wild Hog Murders, A Mammoth Murder Similar People Joe R Lansdale, Stephen Mertz, Michael Newton Profiles | ||
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Bill Crider (born 1941 in Mexia, Texas) is an American author of crime fiction among other work. He received an M.A. at the University of North Texas (in Denton). Later, he taught English at Howard Payne University for twelve years, before earning a Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin, where he wrote a dissertation on the hardboiled detective novel. He then moved to Alvin, Texas, with his wife, where he was the Chair of the Division of English and Fine Arts at Alvin Community College. He retired in August 2003 to become a full-time writer.
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He is the author of the Professor Sally Good and the Carl Burns mysteries, the Sheriff Dan Rhodes series, the Truman Smith PI series, and wrote three books in the Stone: M.I.A. Hunter series under the pseudonym "Jack Buchanan." He is also the writer of several westerns and horror novels.