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   George P. Pelecanos (born February 18, 1957) is an American author, producer and television writer. Many of his 20 books are in the genre of detective fiction and set primarily in his hometown of Washington, D.C. On television, he frequently collaborates with David Simon, writing multiple episodes of Simon's HBO series The Wire and Treme, and ...

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   Feb 5, 2024 · Keren Carrión/NPR. It was August 2009 when the police raided writer George Pelecanos' home in Silver Spring, Md., just outside of Washington, D.C., with a no-knock warrant. He was performing his ...

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   Feb 25, 2020 · Feb 25, 2020 10:35 AM EST. When George Pelecanos was 17, he shot his best friend in the face. He and Frank Carchedi, buddies since the first grade, had skipped school that day in November 1974, as ...

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4. www.writersdigest.com › george-pelecanosThe WD Interview: George Pelecanos - Writer's Digest

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   Aug 25, 2008 · Jordan E. Rosenfeld. Aug 25, 2008. Bestselling crime novelist George Pelecanos took the axiom “write what you know” to heart in the early days of his career. A Firing Offense, the first of his 15 published novels, stars detective Nick Stefanos, a Greek kid from Washington, D.C., with a fetish for punk rock—a character much like Pelecanos.

5. www.npr.org › 2011/08/02 › 138891322Taking On Crime In A Racially Divided D.C. - NPR

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   Aug 2, 2011 · Novelist George Pelecanos: Taking On Crime In A Racially Divided D.C. ... It was the summer of 1968, after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, and riots had broken out on the streets of D.C ...

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6. www.bookbrowse.com › biographies › indexGeorge Pelecanos author biography - BookBrowse

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   George Pelecanos Biography. George Pelecanos was born in Washington, D.C. in 1957. He worked as a line cook, dishwasher, bartender, and woman's shoe salesman before publishing his first novel in 1992. Pelecanos is the author of eighteen novels set in and around Washington, D.C. He has been the recipient of the Raymond Chandler award in Italy ...

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   Who is George Pelecanos?

   • " 'Treme' Writer and Detective Novelist George Pelecanos: How I Write". The Daily Beast. Retrieved October 22, 2012. ^ "DC Noir (2019) - IMDb". IMDb. ^ HBO. " Treme episode "What is New Orleans?" synopsis". Retrieved June 21, 2011. ^ HBO. " Treme episode "At the Foot of Canal Street" synopsis". Retrieved May 10, 2010.

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   Where does George Pelecanos read the Washington Post?

   • Writer George Pelecanos reads The Washington Post every morning in his home. It was August 2009 when the police raided writer George Pelecanos' home in Silver Spring, Md., just outside of Washington, D.C., with a no-knock warrant.

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   Who is Pete Pelecanos?

   • The episode focused on Marines on leave in Australia and featured a displaced Greek family in a prominent guest role. [ 34 ][ 35 ] Pelecanos saw the project as a chance to make a tribute to his father, Pete Pelecanos, who served as a Marine in the Philippines.

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   When did Pelecanos leave 'right as rain'?

   • The Sweet Forever (1980s) and Shame the Devil (1990s) closed the quartet and Pelecanos retired Stefanos and the other characters that populated the novels. (Stefanos and other characters do reappear in subsequent works). In 2001, he introduced a new team of private detectives, Derek Strange and Terry Quinn, as the protagonists of Right as Rain.

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   Did Pelecanos write a book about dogfighting?

   • In another interesting move, Pelecanos attached a CD to the book itself, emulating Michael Connelly who included a CD with his 2003 Harry Bosch book Lost Light. In 2005, Pelecanos saw another novel published, Drama City. This book revisited the examination of dogfighting begun in his book Hell To Pay.

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   What is Pelecanos' 'the no-knock' about?

   • As personal as "The No-Knock" is, Pelecanos calls the title story in the collection his most autobiographical. It's about a kid in the 70s named Nikos who works a job where he gets in with a bad crowd, and eventually gets talked into breaking into a guy's house.

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8. www.nytimes.com › 2018/08/23 › booksBy the Book: George Pelecanos - The New York Times

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   Aug 23, 2018 · The crime novelist and screenwriter George Pelecanos, whose new book is “The Man Who Came Uptown,” would want Gladys Knight to write his life story: “Music heads will get that one.”