Stuart M. Kaminsky
Novelist, Author
1934 – 2009
Who was Stuart M. Kaminsky?
Stuart M. Kaminsky was an American mystery writer and film professor. He is 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 later series followed Lew Fonesca, a process server from Sarasota, Florida.
Kaminsky's Inspector Rostnikov novel A Cold Red Sunrise received the 1989 Edgar Award for Best Novel. He 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 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America.
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- Born
- Sep 29, 1934
Chicago - Also known as
- Stuart Kaminsky
- Stuart Melvin Kaminsky
- S. Kaminsky
- Parents
- Spouses
- Enid Lisa Perll
(1986/01/07 - 2009/10/09) - Merle Gordon
(1959/08/30 - )
- Enid Lisa Perll
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Northwestern University
- Employment
- Florida State University
- Northwestern University
- Died
- Oct 9, 2009
St. Louis
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on July 23, 2013
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