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Ed Lacy

"Ed Lacy" is a pseudonym of author Leonard "Len" S. Zinberg, an American writer of crime and detective fiction.
Leonard S. Zinberg, known as Len, was born in 1911 in upstate New York to Max and Elizabeth Zinberg, attended City College of New York, and in the early 1930s traveled across the country.
He was a working-class Jewish Communist from Manhattan. Zinberg published only three novels under his own name, but after his death in 1968, the New York Times reported that the detective action he wrote under the name Ed Lacy had sold 28 million copies. The firrst Ed Lacy novel, The Woman Aroused, appeared in 1951.

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American novelist and short story writer (1911–1968)

Born August 25, 1911
Died January 7, 1968

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  • Cover of: Sin in Their Blood
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    First published in 2013 — 3 editions
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    First published in 1958 — 2 editions
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American novelist and short story writer (1911–1968)

Born August 25, 1911
Died January 7, 1968

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Fiction, mystery & detective, general, collectionID:Sleazy_pulp, Fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, African Americans, African Americans in literature, African americans, fiction, Crime, fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Fiction, thrillers, general, Lesbians, Murder, New york (n.y.), fiction, Ohio, fiction, Private investigators, Private investigators, fiction, Prostitutes, Race relations

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New York, New York (N.Y.), New York (State), Ohio

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Alternative names

  • Len Zinberg
  • Steve April
  • Ed Lacy
  • Leonard Zinberg

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January 13, 2025 Edited by raybb Edited without comment.
August 21, 2023 Edited by ditchqueen Edited without comment.
August 21, 2023 Edited by ditchqueen Edited without comment.
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import