John P. Marquand, a Pulitzer Prize winner for The Late George Apley (1937) and renowned in mysterydom as the creator of Japanese intelligence officer Mr. Moto, was born today in 1893 in Wilmington, Delaware. Marquand was the nephew of transcendentalist Margaret Fuller and a cousin of architect Buckminster Fuller. By the time of the author’s death in 1960, Mr. Moto had appeared in six novels (No Hero; Thank You, Mr. Moto; Think Fast, Mr. Moto; Mr. Moto Is So Sorry; Last Laugh, Mr. Moto; and Stopover: Tokyo) and eight films, and Marquand had produced more than a dozen highly lucrative mainstream novels and a number of short stories.If you aren’t familiar with I.A. Moto (which probably means that you’re under 40 years old and not an old-movie buff), click here and here to find out more about him and his creator.
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While we’re on the subject of crime novelists, note that Fort Worth, Texas, lawyer-turned-writer Mark Gimenez (The Abduction) is New Mystery Magazine’s “featured author of the month.” In an interview on that site, he talks about his alternating interests in penning legal thrillers and mysteries, his background research into the Vietnam War, and the pleasure he derives from creating his fictional characters. The whole exchange can be found here.
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Gee, thanks, Mr. Pierce. :-)
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