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Name
  
Curt Gentry

Role
  
Writer

Movies
  
Helter Skelter


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Died
  
July 10, 2014, San Francisco, California, United States

Spouse
  
Gail Stevens (m. 1975–1982)

Awards
  
Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime

Books
  
Helter Skelter, J Edgar Hoover, The Last Days of the Late - Gre, Operation Overflight: A Memoir, The Manson Murders

Similar People
  
Vincent Bugliosi, Tom Gries, Charles Manson, JP Miller, Billy Goldenberg

Curtis Marsena "Curt" Gentry (June 13, 1931 – July 10, 2014) was an American writer, born in Lamar, Colorado. He is best known for co-authoring, with Vincent Bugliosi, the 1974 book Helter Skelter, which detailed the Charles Manson murders. Gentry lived in San Francisco, California.

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Gentry died, aged 83, on July 10, 2014, in San Francisco.

Awards and nominations

Frame-Up was a nominee for the 1968 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Fact Crime book.

Helter Skelter won a 1975 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Fact Crime book.

J. Edgar Hoover won the 1992 PEN Center West Literary Award for Non-Fiction.

Select works

  • The Last Days of the Late, Great State of California, Putnam, 1968 (novel)
  • J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets, W. W. Norton, 1991, ISBN 978-0393024043
  • The Madams of San Francisco: An Irreverent History of the City by the Golden Gate, Doubleday and Company, 1964, paperback reprint 1971
  • The Killer Mountains: A Search for the Legendary Lost Dutchman Mine, World Publishing Company (1969)
  • Helter Skelter: The True Story Of The Manson Murders (with Vincent Bugliosi)
  • Frame-up: The Incredible Case of Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, W. W. Norton, 1967
  • The Dolphin Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area
  • Jade: Stone of Heaven (with Richard Gump)
  • John M. Browning: American Gunmaker (with J. Browning)
  • The Vulnerable Americans
  • A Kind of Loving, with Toni Lee Scott (autobiography), World Publishing Company (1970)
  • Operation Overflight: The U-2 Spy Pilot Tells His Story for the First Time (with Francis Gary Powers) Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1971) ISBN 978-0340148235
  • Second in Command: The Uncensored Account of the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo (with Edward R. Murphy)

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    Curt Gentry Wikipedia
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