Charles Willeford
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Charles Ray Willeford III was an American writer. An author of fiction, poetry, autobiography and literary criticism, Willeford wrote a series of novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley.
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Charles Willeford as Ed Middleton in Cockfighter (1974)
Pick-Up (1955), Willeford's second published novel and the first to appear without being packaged with another author's work
Reprint edition of the first Hoke Moseley novel, Miami Blues (1984), Willeford's best known work
"He could never again scale the heights reached by the epic Lumpy Grits." Cover of The Woman Chaser (1960)
"Those are eating dogs.... Did you ever eat any dog?" Cover of Something About a Soldier (1986)Awards 3
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Charles Ray Willeford III was an American writer. An author of fiction, poetry, autobiography and literary criticism, Willeford wrote a series of novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley. Willeford published steadily from the 1940s on, but vaulted to wider attention with the first Hoke Moseley book, Miami Blues (1984), which is considered one of its era's most influential works of crime fiction. Film adaptations have been made of four of Willeford's novels: Cockfighter, Miami Blues, The Woman Chaser, and The Burnt Orange Heresy.
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