Ball, John Dudley, 1911-1988
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Name (Latin)
Ball, John Dudley, 1911-1988
Other forms of name
Ball, John Dudley, 1911-
Ball, John, 1911-
Date of birth
1911-07-08
Date of death
1988-10-15
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Detective and mystery fiction
Novels
Occupation
Novelists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- His Records for pleasure, 1947.
- Phone call to Elysium Press, 05-29-91(John Dudley Ball, also used pseud. Donald Johnson)
Wikipedia description:
John Dudley Ball Jr. (July 8, 1911 – October 15, 1988) was an American writer best known for mystery novels involving the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. Tibbs was introduced in the 1965 novel In the Heat of the Night, which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America and was made into an Oscar-winning film of the same name, starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger.
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