VJ Books Presents Author Donald E. Westlake!
 Author Donald E. Westlake (July 12, 1933 - December 31, 2008) was born in Brooklyn, New York. Westlake attended three colleges in New York State and spent two and a half years in the United States Air Force. In 1996, he received a doctorate in letters from SUNY Binghamton.
Westlake was best known as a crime novelist and creator of John Dortmunder, the most clever and least lucky thief in crime fiction, and, writing as Richard Stark, the hard-boiled heist master Parker.
Variously known as Richard Stark, Tucker Coe, Curt Clark, Samuel Holt, Timothy J. Culver, J. Morgan Cunningham, Judson Jack Carmichael, among others, Donald Westlake penned more than one hundred books, mostly in crime fiction but also in genres from biography to history, science fiction and children's stories.
Donald E. Westlake died December 31, 2008.
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Donald E. Westlake Selected Bibliography
Phil Crawford Series
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Backstage Love - 1959
- All the Girls Were Willing - 1960
- Sin Prowl - 1963
Parker Series (written as Richard Stark)
- The Hunter - 1962
- The Man with the Getaway Face - 1963
- The Outfit - 1963
- The Mourner - 1963
- The Score - 1963
- The Jugger - 1965
- The Seventh - 1966
- The Handle - 1966
- The Rare Coin Score - 1967
- The Green Eagle Score - 1967
- The Black Ice Score - 1968
- The Sour Lemon Score - 1969
- Deadly Edge - 1971
- Slayground - 1971
- Plunder Squad - 1972
- Butcher’s Moon - 1974
- Comeback - 1997
- Backflash - 1998
- Flashfire - 2000
- Firebreak - 2001
- Breakout - 2002
- Nobody Runs Forever - 2004
- Ask the Parrot - 2006
- Dirty Money - 2008
- Get Real - 2009
Other
- Kahawa - 1995
- The Ax - 1997
- A Good Story and Other Stories - 1999
- The Hook - 2000
- Bad News - 2001
- Put a Lid On It - 2002
- Money for Nothing - 2003
- Road to Ruin - 2014
- Memory - 2010 (published posthumously)
- The Comedy is Finished - 2012 (published posthumously)
- Forever and a Death - June 2017 (published posthumously)
Anthologies
- Best American Mystery Stories of 2000 (Edited by Donald E. Westlake) - 2000
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