Stuart M. Kaminsky
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Stuart Melvin Kaminsky entered the University of Illinois on a soccer scholarship, he earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism in 1957, followed by a master’s in English literature in 1959. In 1972, he received a doctorate in film studies from Northwestern University, writing his dissertation on the director Don Siegel. Joining the Northwestern faculty, Mr. Kaminsky taught film there until 1989. Afterward, he was the first director of the Graduate Film Conservatory at Florida State University, a position he held till 1994, when he left academia to write full time. The author of more than 60 crime novels, Mr. Kaminsky typically wrote two or more books a year. A longtime resident of Sarasota, Florida, he moved to St. Louis for a liver transplant but suffered a stroke shortly thereafter which made him ineligible for the transplant.
A Fatal Glass of Beer : | A fatal glass of beer / | A whisper to the living / | Blood and rubles | Blood and rubles : | Bright futures : | Devil on my doorstep | Devil on my doorstep / | Fall of a Cosmonaut : | Fall of a cosmonaut / | Midnight pass : | Mildred Pierced : | Mildred pierced : | People who walk in darkness | People who walk in darkness / | The Cold War swap | The Cold War swap / | The Rockford files: the green bottle | The green bottle / | The last dark place : | Vengeance | Vengeance :