Block contributed a fiction column to Writer’s Digest for fourteen years, and has published several books for writers, including the classic Telling Lies for Fun & Profit and the updated and expanded Writing the Novel from Plot to Print to Pixel; he recently held the position of writer-in-residence at South Carolina’s Newberry College. His nonfiction has been collected in The Crime of Our Lives (about mystery fiction) and Hunting Buffalo with Bent Nails (about everything else), while his collection of columns about stamp collecting, Generally Speaking, has found a substantial audience throughout and far beyond the philatelic community.

  It is as a creator of memorable series characters that Lawrence Block is perhaps best known, and Matthew Scudder, Bernie Rhodenbarr, Evan Tanner, Chip Harrison, and Keller (respectively, an alcoholic ex-cop, a gentleman burglar, an adventurous insomniac, a lecher in the rye, and a wistful hitman) have won their share of readers’ hearts and minds. Ed London, whose three magazine appearances are a highlight of The Naked and the Deadly, was arguably the young author’s first series character.

  All in all, Lawrence Block is a modest and humble fellow, although you would never guess as much from this biographical note.

  ROBERT DEIS owns one of the world’s largest collections of vintage men’s adventure magazines (MAMs) published in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. In 2009, he created a popular blog about the genre, MensPulpMags.com. A few years later, Bob and Wyatt Doyle of New Texture launched The Men’s Adventure Library, a series of books that feature classic MAM pulp fiction stories and artwork. That series now includes nearly 20 lushly illustrated story anthologies and art books. In recent years, Bob and Wyatt have been featured speakers at PulpFest, and Bob was listed in the book Who’s Who In New Pulp. Starting in 2021, Bob began working with Bill Cunningham, head of Pulp 2.0 Press, to publish a magazine that features MAM stories and artwork, called the Men’s Adventure Quarterly. He has contributed articles about MAMs to various magazines and fanzines and also writes two blogs about famous quotations, ThisDayinQuotes.com and QuoteCounterquote.com. Bob lives near Key West, Florida with his wife BJ (who graciously tolerates his fascination with vintage MAMs), their three dogs, and four cats.

  WYATT DOYLE is ringmaster of New Texture, and he edits and designs most releases. His own books include Stop Requested (illustrated by Stanley J. Zappa), Dollar Halloween, I Need Real Tuxedo and a Top Hat!, Buty-Wave Is Now Closed Forever, and Jorge Amaya Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. A retrospective of his photography was presented by Gallery 30 South in Pasadena, CA. With Robert Deis, he edits The Men’s Adventure Library series, exploring vintage pulp fiction, illustration art, and history. With Jimmy Angelina, he created The Last Coloring Book and The Last Coloring Book on the Left, as well as Be Italian. Together with Hal Glatzer and Norman von Holtzendorff, he produced Things That Were Made for Love, collecting the Jazz Age songsheet art of Sydney Leff. He assisted in the publication of Georgina Spelvin’s memoir, The Devil Made Me Do It, and published Josh Alan Friedman’s Black Cracker and Tell the Truth Until They Bleed via his Wyatt Doyle Books imprint. He administers the creative estate of Rev. Raymond Branch, and curates RevBranch.com. His screenplay with Jason Cuadrado, I’m Here For You, was produced as Devil May Call. A member of The Stanley J. Zappa Quartet, a recording, The Stanley J. Zappa Quartet Plays for the Society of Women Engineers, has been released.

 

 

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