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Joseph Wambaugh

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American writer (1937-2025)

United StatesWritersLived 1937 to 2025 · aged 88
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Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh Jr. was an American writer known for his fictional and nonfictional accounts of police work in the United States. Many of his novels are set in Los Angeles and its surroundings and feature Los Angeles police officers as protagonists.

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1974Edgar Awards

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Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh Jr. was an American writer known for his fictional and nonfictional accounts of police work in the United States. Many of his novels are set in Los Angeles and its surroundings and feature Los Angeles police officers as protagonists. He won three Edgar Awards, and was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.

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United States
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Writers
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Writer / Author
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deceased
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Lived 1937 to 2025 · aged 88
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20 languages

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