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Joseph Wambaugh

American writer

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born
1937
died
2025
age at death
88
known for
writer, novelist, screenwriter

1937 – 2025

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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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