Author: Robert J. Randisi
Alternate names: Robert J Randisi; J. Randisi Robert; Pseudonyms include Robert Leigh; Joe Roberts; W. B. Longley; Robert Lake; Spenser Fortune; Joshua Randall; Tom Cutter; J.R. Roberts; Joseph Meek; Cole Weston; Lew Baines; Paul Ledd; Spencer Fortune; Jon Sharpe; house pseudonyms include Nick Carter; Warren Murphy.; Robert Randisi
Born: 1951
Bio: He's been called astonishingly prolific. He's been called "the last of the great pulp writers."

Robert J. Randisi has fought to ensure that P.I. fiction gets some respect, not just through his many splendid contributions to the genre in the form of his fictional eyes creations of Miles Jacoby, Henry Po, Nick Delvecchio or a host of others, as entertaining as they may be, but through his tireless promotion of the genre through his numerous non-fiction articles, his co-founding, with Ed Gorman, of Mystery Scene magazine and most of all through his founding of The Private Eye Writers of America in 1981.

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