William Heffernan (born August 22, 1940) is an American

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born in

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. Before becoming a novelist, Heffernan was an

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for the '' New York Daily News''. Heffernan left journalism in 1978 after receiving his first book contract for the novel ''Broderick''. He won the Heywood Broun Award twice, received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and has received a number of other local, state and regional honors. William Heffernan has received the Edgar Award, is a member of the Authors Guild, The Mystery Writers of America, and was once President of the International Association of Crime Writers. The film rights for ''The Dinosaur Club'' were sold to Warner Bros in 1997 for $1 million.Between the Lines: June 20, 1997
''Entertainment Weekly''

Works

*''Broderick'' (1980) *''Caging the Raven'' (1981) *''The Corsican'' (1983) *''Acts of Contrition'' (1986) *''Blood Rose'' (a Paul Devlin series book) (1988) *''Ritual'' (a Paul Devlin series book) (1989) *''Corsican Honor'' (1991) *''Scarred'' (a Paul Devlin series book) (1992) *''Tarnished Blue'' (a Paul Devlin series book) (winner of the Edgar Award for best paperback original) (1993) *''Winter's Gold'' (a Paul Devlin series book) (1995) *''The Dinosaur Club'' (1997) *''Cityside'' (1997) *''Red Angel'' (a Paul Devlin series book) (1999) *''Beulah Hill'' (2000) *''Unholy Order'' (a Paul Devlin series book) (2000) *''A Time Gone By'' (2003) *''The Dead Detective'' (2010) *''When Johnny Came Marching Home'' (2012) *''The Scientology Murders'' (a Dead Detective series book) (2017)

Translations

*''A Time Gone By'' has been translated into Polish: ''Czas Przeszly'', Wydawnictwo "Amber"

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, 2004

References

External links

An Interview with HeffernanFantastic Fiction - William HeffernanWho Dunnit, William Heffernan
Living people 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American male journalists American male novelists American mystery writers Edgar Award winners 1950 births Writers from New Haven, Connecticut 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers Novelists from Connecticut 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers {{US-novelist-1950s-stub