Print the Legend: A Hector Lassiter novel
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13. In addition to Hemingway, the FBI also kept extensive files on Carl Sandburg, John Steinbeck, Rex Stout, Tennessee Williams and Norman Mailer, among many others. Do you think its possible similar files are maintained on contemporary authors?
14. Hector is known as “the man who lives what he writes and writes what he lives.” He remembers his ex-wife Duff insisting he’d some day have to choose one side of that equation: either his life informs his art, or his art shapes his daily existence. Do you agree with her assertion that Hector can’t have it both ways?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Craig McDonald is an award-winning author and journalist. The Hector Lassiter series has been published to international acclaim in numerous languages. McDonald’s debut novel was nominated for Edgar, Anthony and Gumshoe awards in the U.S. and the 2011 Sélection du prix polar Saint-Maur en Poche in France.
The Lassiter series has been enthusiastically endorsed by a who’s who of crime fiction authors including: Michael Connelly, Laura Lippmann, Daniel Woodrell, James Crumley, James Sallis, Diana Gabaldon, and Ken Bruen, among many others.
Hector Lassiter also centers short stories that appear in crime fiction anthologies: Dublin Noir (Akashic Books) and The Deadly Bride & 19 of the Year’s Finest Crime and Mystery Stories (Carroll & Graf).
Craig McDonald is also the author of two highly praised non-fiction volumes on the subject of mystery and crime fiction writing, Art in the Blood and Rogue Males, nominated for the Macavity Award.
To learn more about Craig, visit www.craigmcdonaldbooks.com and www.betimesbooks.com
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