Occupation Novelist Name Loren Estleman | Role Writer | |
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Awards Michigan Author Award Nominations Edgar Award for Best Novel, National Book Award for Western Books Sherlock Holmes vs Dracula, Amos Walker: The Com, The Confessions of Al Cap, Dr Jekyll and Mr Holmes, You Know Who Killed Me Similar People Bill Pronzini, Edward Gorman, Mickey Spillane, Elmer Kelton, Lawrence Block | ||
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Loren D. Estleman (born September 15, 1952 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American writer of detective and Western fiction. He is known for a series of crime novels featuring the investigator Amos Walker.
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Life and work
Estleman graduated from Eastern Michigan University in 1974 with a BA in English and journalism. In 2002, Eastern Michigan University presented him with an honorary doctorate in humane letters. He married the mystery writer Deborah Morgan in 1993. He writes with a manual typewriter.
He is most famous for his novels about P.I. Amos Walker; other series center on Old West marshal Page Murdock and hitman Peter Macklin. He has also written a series of novels about the history of crime in Detroit (also the setting of his Walker books), and a more recent series about Valentino, who tracks down lost films, and crimes related to them. His non-series works include Bloody Season, a fictional recreation of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and several novels and stories featuring Sherlock Holmes, as well as contributions to several books on how to write and sell stories and novels. Estleman's literary works have been recognized and highlighted by Michigan State University in their Michigan Writers Series.