Joseph Wambaugh
Writer
Notable Achievement
The New Centurions police novelist
Biography
Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh Jr. was an American writer known for his fictional and nonfictional accounts of police work in the United States. Many of his novels are set in Los Angeles and its surroundings and feature Los Angeles police officers as protagonists. He won three Edgar Awards, and was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.
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Birthday Date
Joseph Wambaugh was born on January 22