Max Allan Collins
Max Allan Collins (born March 3, 1948 in Muscatine , Iowa ) is an American novelist , screenwriter and comic book writer .
Life and work
Collins, who has made a name for himself primarily as a mystery author, has published novels, short stories, comic books and strips, scripts and book-like film adaptations over the past three decades.
As a writer, he created the Heller novels around a private detective named Nathan Heller who lived in Chicago in the 1930s and 1940s. The first novel in the series, True Detective , won the 1984 Shamus Award for Best PI Story from the Society of Private Eye Writers of America . In 1992 a second Shamus followed for the novel Stolen Away , a retelling of the Lindbergh kidnapping. Other novels in the series were Flying Blind (1999) and Chicago Confidential . From Collins Short Stories, Kiss of Death won the Herodotus Award in the Best Historical Short Story category in 2002. The The Historical Mystery Appreciation Society (HMAS) honored Collins for a second time in 2002 with the Herodotus Award in "recognition of his previous literary life's work." In 2005, Men's Adventure Magazines received the Anthony Award for Best Non-Fiction . In 2017, Collins received the Edgar Allan Poe Award Grand Master Award together with Ellen Hart .
In addition, Collins has written adaptations of novels to television series such as CSI , Bones and Dark Angel and some history and fiction-mixing books about the career of the legendary police officer Eliot Ness .
The novels in the five-part "Mallory" series are about an Iowa mystery writer who solves crimes. The most commercially successful novel in the series was "A Nice Weekend for a Murder".
Collins' work as a comic book writer includes work on the newspaper comic strip Dick Tracy created by Chester Gould , the authorship of the traditional series Batman , for which he succeeded Frank Miller in issues # 408-411 (1987) and worked on the one he created Road to Perdition series that was filmed in 2002 with Tom Hanks in the lead role, based on a script written by Collins himself. There was also the series of the same name about the private detective Ms. Tree . Based on the Road to Perdition comics, he wrote the novels Road to Purgatory and Road to Paradise .
Collins has directed three film projects: Mommy , Mommy 2: Mommy's Day , and Real Time: Siege at Lucas Street Market .
Bibliography (excerpt)
Nathan Heller
- 1. True Detective - Chicago 1933
- 2. True Crime - Gangster Brides 1934
- 3rd Million Dollar Wound - Gangster War 1942
- 4. Neon Mirage - Las Vegas 1946
- 5. Stolen Away - Kidnapping
- 6. Carnal Hours
- 7. Blood and Thunder
- 8. Damned in Paradise
- 9. Flying blind
- 10. Majic Man
- 11. Angel in Black
- 12. Chicago Confidential
- 13. Bye bye baby
Mallory
- 1. No Cure for Death - The one-eyed
- 2. Baby Blue Rip-Off - Veteran Returns Home
- 3. Kill Your Darlings - Murder Congress
- 4. Shroud for Aquarius - The flower children too
- 5. Nice Weekend for a Murder
Quarry
- 1. Quarry / Broker - Quarry and the broker of death
- 2. Quarry's List / Broker's Wife - Quarry and the List of Death
- 3. Quarry's Deal / Dealer - Quarry and the killers
- 4. Quarry's Cut / Slasher - Quarry doesn't give up
- 5. Primary Target - Quarry and the million dollar contract
- 6. Quarry's Greatest Hits
- 7. Last Quarry - Last Quarry
- 8. First Quarry
- 9. Quarry in the Middle
- 10. Quarry's Ex
Eliot Ness
- 1. Dark City - Dark City
- 2. Butcher's Dozen - killer in the dark city
- 3. Bullet proof
- 4. Murder by the Numbers
Frank Nolan
- 1. Bait Money - bait for Nolan
- 2. Blood Money - blood money for Nolan
- 3. Fly paper
- 4. Hush Money
- 5. Hard cash
- 6. Scratch fever
- 7. Spree
- 8. Morn the Living
Disaster
- 1. Titanic Murders
- 2. Hindenburg Murders
- 3. Pearl Harbor Murders
- 4. Lusitania Murders
- 5. London Blitz Murders
- 6. War of the Worlds Murders
Web links
- http://www.maxallancollins.com/ official website (English)
- Max Allan Collins in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Max Allan Collins in the catalog of the German National Library
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SURNAME | Collins, Max Allan |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American novelist, screenwriter, and comic book writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1948 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Muscatine , Iowa |