Leslie Waller

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Leslie Elson Waller
Rochester, NY
OccupationFiction writer, PR executive
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
Period1944–2001
Notable worksThe Banker (1963)
The Family (1968)
The American (1971)
SpouseLouise Hetzel
Patricia Mahen

Leslie Elson Waller (April 1, 1923 – March 29, 2007)[1] was an American writer.

Biography

He is a son of Ukrainian immigrants and was born in

poliomyelitis[2] as a child, but graduated from Hyde Park High School[3]
by the age of 16. He was interested in writing from an early age, and became a police reporter before he went to Wilson Junior College.

He joined the Army Air Corps in 1942 and continued to write, never leaving the US. His first published novel under his own name was Three Day Pass. Before that, he published Lie Like a Lady under the pseudonym C.S. Cody.

After

Calabria, Italy, in 1978 where they lived for 11 years and later moved to London.[6] After 15 years abroad, they lived in Naples, Florida where he wrote, lectured, and contributed to Florida’s leading cultural magazine, the Naples Review.[7]

Waller worked as a public relations account executive at Harshe-Rotman and Druck in New York, servicing a variety of accounts, including Hertz Rent-a-Car. In the meantime, he continued to write novels and a children's book series, "A Book to Begin on...".

Writer

Leslie Waller with his co-author

comic books and "book books", to St John, the publisher who released It Rhymes with Lust. Originally published in 1950, the graphic novel was rereleased by Dark Horse Comics
in the Spring of 2007.

His trilogy, The Banker, The Family, and The American garnered recognition, landing the last title on The New York Times bestseller list. Waller became known as a go-to man for novelizations and produced the novels for Dog Day Afternoon (under the pseudonym Patrick Mann), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (ghost-written) and Hide in Plain Sight.

Bibliography

  • Lie Like a Lady (writing as C S Cody)
  • Three Day Pass (1944)
  • Show Me the Way (1947)
  • It Rhymes with Lust (1950) (with Arnold Drake, writing as Drake Waller)
  • The Bed She Made (1951)
  • The Witching Night (1953) (writing as C S Cody)
  • Phoenix Island (1958)
  • The Banker (1963)
  • Will the Real Toulouse-Lautrec Please Stand Up? (1965)
  • Overdrive (1966)
  • New Sound (1968)
  • The Family (1968)
  • Change in the Wind (1970)
  • The American (1971)
  • Number One (1973)
  • The Vacancy (1973) (writing as Patrick Mann)
  • Dog Day Afternoon (1974) (writing as Patrick Mann)
  • Coast of Fear (1975)
  • The Swiss Account (1976)
  • K. Assignment (1976)
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) (with Steven Spielberg)
  • Hide in Plain Sight (1978)
  • Trocadero (1978)
  • Brave and the Free (1979)
  • Blood and Dreams (1980)
  • Steal Big (1981) (writing as Patrick Mann)
  • Gameplan (1983)
  • Falcon Crest (1984) (writing as Patrick Mann)
  • Embassy (1987)
  • Amazing Faith (1988)
  • Mafia Wars (1991)
  • Deadly Sins (1992)
  • Tango Havana (1993)
  • Manhattan Transfer (1994)
  • Eden (1997)
  • Comeback (1997)
  • Target Diana (2001)

References

  1. ^ Obituary: LESLIE WALLER (1923-2007)
  2. ^ Leslie Waller: American author, he wrote The Banker and Dog Day Afternoon
  3. ^ "Obituary: Leslie Waller". The Guardian. 2007-04-18. Archived from the original on 2022-06-02.
  4. ^ Leslie Waller at Alibris.com
  5. ^ Noted author Leslie Waller, of Naples, dies at 83
  6. ^ Noted author Leslie Waller, of Naples, dies at 83
  7. ^ Obituary: LESLIE WALLER (1923-2007)
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