LB’s magazine appearances include American Heritage, Redbook, Playboy, Linn’s Stamp News, Cosmopolitan, GQ, and The New York Times. LB is best known for his series characters, including cop-turned-private investigator Matthew Scudder, gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, globe-trotting insomniac Evan Tanner, and introspective assassin Keller.īecause one name is never enough, LB has also published under pseudonyms including Jill Emerson, John Warren Wells, Lesley Evans, and Anne Campbell Clarke. In 2005 it became the first offering from Hard Case Crime, and bore for the first time LB’s original title, Grifter’s Game. The first book published under his own name was Mona (1961) it was reissued several times over the years, once as Sweet Slow Death. The first time Lawrence Block’s name appeared in print was when his short story “You Can’t Lose” was published in the February 1958 issue of Manhunt. His earliest work, published pseudonymously in the late 1950s, was mostly in the field of midcentury erotica, an apprenticeship he shared with Donald E. He has published in excess (oh, wretched excess!) of 100 books, and no end of short stories.īorn in Buffalo, N.Y., LB attended Antioch College, but left before completing his studies school authorities advised him that they felt he’d be happier elsewhere, and he thought this was remarkably perceptive of them. Lawrence Block has been writing crime, mystery, and suspense fiction for more than half a century.
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