Stuart M. Kaminsky

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name = Stuart M. Kaminsky

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birthdate = 1934
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occupation = Mystery writer, novelist
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website = http://www.stuartkaminsky.com/filecabinet.html

Stuart M. Kaminsky (born 1934)cite web|url= http://januarymagazine.com/profiles/kaminsky.html|date= August 2002|accessdate=2008-02-19 | title= "Murder Is His Business: by J. Kingston Pierce|work= January Magazine] is an award-winning American mystery writer. He is best known for three long-running series of mystery novels featuring the protagonists Toby Peters, a private detective in 1940s Hollywood; Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, a Moscow police inspector; and veteran Chicago police officer Abe Lieberman. A more recent series follows Florida process-server Lew Fonesca.

Kaminsky's Inspector Rostnikov novel "A Cold Red Sunrise" received the 1989 Edgar Award for Best Novel. He has earned six other Edgar nominations, most recently for the 2005 non-fiction book "Behind the Mystery: Top Mystery Writers Interviewed", which was also nominated for an Anthony Award, a Macavity Award, and an Agatha Award. In 2006 Kaminsky received the Grandmaster Award from the Mystery Writers of America. [cite web|url= http://mysterywriters.org/edgarsDB/edgarDB.php|date= c2006|accessdate= 2008-02-19| title= Edgar Award Winners & Nominees database|work= Mystery Writers of America]

Biography

Kaminsky, who grew up in Chicago, earned a B.S. in journalism and an M.A. in English from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in speech from Northwestern University. He taught film and film history at Northwestern for 16 years, and then taught at Florida State for six years. [cite web|url= http://www.mysteryone.com/StuartKaminskyInterview.htm|date= 2002-08-28|accessdate= 2008-02-19| title= "Interview with Stuart Kaminsky"|work= Mystery One Bookstore]

Kaminsky's first novel was the 1977 Toby Peters mystery "Bullet for a Star". He has since published more than 50 novels as well as story collections and nonfiction works. Kaminsky is a past president of the Mystery Writers of America.

Besides being one of America's most prolific mystery writers, Kaminsky has inspired many other writers in the genre, including fellow Chicagoan Sara Paretsky, who dedicated the first novel in her V. I. Warshawski private-eye series to Kaminsky.

Works

Novels

tory collections

*"Hidden and Other Stories" (1999)
*"The Man Who Beat the System and Other Stories" (Audio) (2000)

Other fiction

*Kolchak: The Night Stalker
**"Fever Pitch" (graphic novel, with Christopher Jones and Barbara Schulz) (2003)
**"Kolchak the Night Stalker, Volume 1" (graphic novel, with Joe Gentile and Jeff Rice) (2004)
**"Kolchak: The Night Stalker Chronicles" (story anthology, includes "The Night Talker" by Kaminsky) (2005)

As editor

*"Opening Shots" (1991)
*"Mystery in the Sunshine State" (1999)
*"Show Business Is Murder" (2004)

Non-fiction

*"A Biographical Study of the Career of Donald Siegel and an Analysis of His Films" (1972)
*"Clint Eastwood" (1974)
*"American Film Genres: Approaches to a Critical Theory of Popular Film" (1974)
*"Don Siegel, Director" (1974)
*"Ingmar Bergman: Essays in Criticism" (1975)
*"John Huston: Maker of Magic" (1978)
*"Coop: The Life and Legend of Gary Cooper" (1979)
*"Basic Filmmaking" (with Dana H Hodgdon) (1981)
*"Writing for Television" (with Mark Walker) (1988)
*"American Television Genres" (1991)
*"Behind the Mystery: Top Mystery Writers Interviewed" (Interviews by Kaminsky; photographs by Laurie Roberts) (2005)

Filmography

*"Once Upon a Time in America" (1984)
*"Enemy Territory" (1987)
*"Woman in the Wind" (1990)
*"Hidden Fears" (1993)
*"A Nero Wolfe Mystery" — "Immune to Murder" (2002)

References

External links

* [http://www.stuartkaminsky.com/filecabinet.html Stuart M. Kaminsky's website]
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