Bill Crider wrote:
One of the characters in my Sheriff Rhodes series is a big Ed
McBain fan, so I wrote something in one of the books about
McBain's various names. Someone told him about it, and he
read the book, after which he wrote me a very nice letter in
which he explained that he had made the change legal. He
doesn't like to be reminded of his birth name, as I think
Richard Moore can attest. I believe Richard asked him about
it at the Omaha Bouchercon.
********** If he is touchy about his name, I wonder how he
felt about the paperback HAIL, HAIL, THE GANG'S ALL HERE that
has his name on the title page as Ed McBaine. Talk about
typos... That's the same one I mentioned earlier with the
dedication to the MWA suggesting (humorously, I believe) that
he deserved an award for the book.
miker
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