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Donald E. Westlake

Lifespan
1933 – 2008
Nationality
American
Active
1961
Works held
5

Donald E. Westlake (1933–2008) is best known as a crime novelist, creator of the comic thief Dortmunder and, as ‘Richard Stark’, the ruthless Parker, and a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master. But he began in the 1950s science-fiction magazines and returned to the genre periodically, notably with the satirical Anarchaos. His lean, witty, plot-perfect craft carried across every field he touched.

The works

  1. 1961
    Cover of Call Him Nemesis Call Him Nemesis Cover of Meteor strike! Meteor strike! Cover of The Risk Profession The Risk Profession Cover of The Spy in the Elevator The Spy in the Elevator Cover of They Also Serve They Also Serve

Wrote across

1960s

Recurring themes

Social SFSpace OperaDystopiaColonizationPsychic PowersHard SF

Kindred authors shared themes

Alan Edward NourseBryce WaltonEdward W. LudwigFrank M. RobinsonFrederik PohlGeorge O. SmithH. B. FyfeH. Beam Piper

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Randall GarrettKeith LaumerMack ReynoldsJack SharkeyJim HarmonMurray LeinsterJames H. SchmitzLaurence M. JaniferRobert F. YoungH. B. Fyfe

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