Robert Lindsey (journalist)

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Robert Lindsey
Born
Robert Hughes Lindsey

(1935-01-04) January 4, 1935 (age 89)
Edgar Allan Poe Award
CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction

Robert Lindsey (born January 4, 1935) is a journalist and author of several true crime books,[1] including The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage (1979) and A Gathering of Saints: A True Story of Money, Murder and Deceit (1988).

Background

Lindsey was born in

San Jose Mercury-News as a reporter. In the 1970s, Lindsey relocated to Los Angeles and became the Los Angeles bureau chief for The New York Times.[2]

Writing

The Falcon and the Snowman

In 1977, Lindsey began chronicling the story of

Edgar Allan Poe Award for best non-fiction crime book. In 1983, the sequel, The Flight of the Falcon: The True Story of the Escape and Manhunt for America's Most Wanted Spy, was released; it chronicled Boyce's escape from federal prison and subsequent bank robbing spree. The Falcon and the Snowman was optioned for a film and was subsequently made into a film of the same name
, released in January 1985.

A Gathering of Saints

Lindsey's third non-fiction book was A Gathering of Saints: A True Story of Money, Murder and Deceit released in 1988. The book tells the story of a series of incidents involving document forger

forgeries made by Hofmann, but the quality was such that it took some intensive detective work to uncover this, even after a number of document experts had found them to be "genuine". Lindsey won the 1989 CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction
for this book.

Other works

Marlon Brando and Ronald Reagan utilized Lindsey as a ghostwriter in writing their memoirs; respectively, Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Me, and Ronald Reagan: An American Life.[3] Lindsey's own memoir, Ghost Scribbler, was published in 2012.

Books

  • The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage, Robert Lindsey (Simon & Schuster; 1979)
  • The Flight of the Falcon, Robert Lindsey (Simon & Schuster; 1983)
  • A Gathering of Saints: A True Story of Money, Murder and Deceit, Robert Lindsey (Simon & Schuster; 1988)
  • Irresistible Impulse: A True Story of Blood and Money, Robert Lindsey (Simon & Schuster; 1992)
  • Songs My Mother Taught Me, Marlon Brando (with Robert Lindsey) (Random House; 1994)
  • Ghost Scribbler: Searching for Reagan, Brando and the King of Pop, Robert Lindsey (CreateSpace; 2012)

References

  1. ^ Katzenbach, John (9 October 1988). "Crime/Mystery; Doubting the Prophet". The New York Times. p. 28. Retrieved 30 May 2011.
  2. ^ The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage, p. 355-356, at Google Books
  3. OCLC 40180750
    .