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A native of Brooklyn, New York, Frank Morrison Spillane was born in 1918 to a Presbyterian mother and Irish Catholic father who supported the family with a job as a bartender.
Frank Morrison Spillane was born March 9, 1918, in Brooklyn, New York, and primarily raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Spillane was the only child of his Irish bartender father, John Joseph Spillane, and his Scottish mother, Catherine Anne.
In 1960, Mickey took over the rackets left to him by his predecessor Hughie Mulligan. He married Maureen McManus, the daughter of the powerful Hell's Kitchen Democratic district leader Eugene McManus.
Mickey Spillane, the king of the pulp novelists in the post-WW II period, sold an estimated 200 million copies globally. He was born Frank Morrison Spillane in Brooklyn, New York. Young Frank's mother was a Protestant who bestowed on him his middle name "Morrison", but his Irish Catholic father, barkeep John Joseph Spillane, allegedly had his ...
- March 9, 1918
- July 17, 2006
Jul 31, 2014 · Maureen McManus, the daughter of a Hell’s Kitchen leader, was married in 1960 to Michael J. (Mickey) Spillane.
Jul 18, 2006 · Spillane's mother was a Presbyterian and his father a Catholic. When he was coming into his own as a writer, Spillane liked to say that he had been "christened in two churches and neither...
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In 1945 he married Mary Ann Pearce, the first of his three wives. The couple had two sons and two daughters. After leaving the military, he briefly worked in the Barnum and Bailey Circus as a trampoline artist and adept knife-thrower.
