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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Lawrence Sanders, Author Biographies

Best selling American author, Lawrence Sanders was born on March 15, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York but grew up in the Midwest. He attended Wabash College in Indiana and earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in journalism in 1940. After moving back to New York, Lawrence enlisted in the United States Marine Corp and served from 1943 to 1946.

Lawrence took a variety of jobs including writing and editing for various magazines, including Science and Mechanic. Several of his short stories mysteries were published in Swank Magazine in 1968-1969.

In 1970, at the age of 50, Lawrence Sanders first novel, The Anderson Tapes, was published and won The Edgar Award for best first mystery novel. This award is a highly coveted and the most prestigious award given out by the Mystery Writers Association.

Lawrence Sanders, Author Biographies

Lawrence Sanders went on to write fiction full time. With the Anderson Tapes, we are introduced to Edward X. Delaney, a tough New York Investigator. Other Lawrence Sanders series characters are Archy McNally, Timothy Cone and Peter Tangent. Then there are the Commandment protagonists, Dora Conti, Samuel Todd and Joshua Bigg.

Besides his series, Mr. Sanders wrote 15 stand alone novels before publishing his memoirs, The Sins of Lawrence Sanders in 1984.

Lawrence Sanders died in Pompano Beach, Florida on February 7, 1998. There was some controversy concerning his Archy McNally Series. Who actually wrote the first books? Did Sanders and Vincent Lardo write the books together? Was Vincent Lardo the true author? Or, was he (as claimed) commissioned by Lawrence Sanderís estate to continue the writing.

Bibliography:

Series:

Edward S. Delaney
The Anderson Tapes (1970)
The First Deadly Sin (1973)
The Second Daily Sin (1973)
The Third Deadly Sin (1981)
The Fourth Deadly Sin (1985)
Peter Tangent
The Tangent Factor (1976)
The Tangent Objective (1976)

Commandment

The Sixth Commandment (1978)
The Tenth Commandment (1980)
The Eighth Commandment (1986)
The Seventh Commandment (1991)

Timothy Cone

The Timothy Files (1987)
Timothyís Game (1988)

Archy McNally

McNallyís Secret (1991)
McNallyís Luck (1992)
McNallyís Risk (1993) (With Vincent Lardo)
McNallyís Caper (1994)
McNallyís Trial (1995)
McNallyís Puzzle (6)
McNallyís Gamble (1997) (With Vincent Lardo)
McNallyís Dilemma (1999) (With Vincent Lardo)
McNallyís Folly (2000) (With Vincent Lardo)
McNallyís Chance (2001) (With Vincent Lardo)
McNallyís Alibi (2002) (With Vincent Lardo)
McNallyís Dare (2003) (With Vincent Lardo)
McNallyís Bluff (2004) (With Vincent Lardo)
McNallyís Files (Novella) (2006)

Novels

The Pleasures of Helen (1971)
Love Songs (1972)
The Tomorrow File (1975)
The Marlow Chronicles (1977)
Caper (1980) (written as Leslie Andress)
The Dark Summer (1980) (written as Mark Upton)
The Case of Lucy Bending (1982)
The Seduction of Peter S. (1983)
The Passion of Molly T. (1984)
The Loves of Harry Dancer (1985)
The Dream Lover (1986)
Tales of the Wolf (1986)
Capital Crimes (1989)
Stolen Blessings (1990)
Sullivanís Sting (1990)
Private Pleasures (1993)
Guilty Pleasures (1998)
Non Fiction
The Sins of Lawrence Sanders (1984)

Short Stories:

Published in Swank Magazine
Manhattan after Dark
The Rogue Man
The Bloody Triangle
The Man Who Didn't Come Back
The Woman in the Lake
The String of Blues
The Case of the Purloined Princess
Death of a Model
The Girl in the Office
The Curse of the Upper Classes
The Ice Gang
An Introduction to Murder
The Case of the Missing Nude

Lawrence Sanders, Author Biographies

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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Formats for Writing Life Narratives

Q and A.

Best choice when subject is very verbal or there are two or more people being
interviewed or taped at the same time. All repetitive statements, umms, ahhs and blatant
incorrect grammar are edited out. Natural patterns of speech, coloquolisms and favorite sayings
are left in.

Biographies Memoirs

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JHW. When you started your business in 1934, how did you finance it?

Formats for Writing Life Narratives

BT. Well, remember my uncle Horace? He was my Mother's brother.

HT. Half brother.

BT.. OK, so half brother, her father remarried after Sybil, my grandmother, died and my mother was a little girl
about nine or ten. His second wife, what was her name?

HT.Alice May Jones, her family had moved west to build the dam.

BT.. So anyway, Horace was killed in a train wreck when he was visiting in California and as he had never married,
the insurance settlement went to his next of kin, which turned out to be my mother. She wanted to invest the money
and came to us and asked our advice. I told her that I had been thinking of opening this repair shop and I thought I
could make a go of it. She thought about it long and hard and came back the next day and said she would rather
invest in us than any old bank.

HT. But we paid her back with interest. We were able to put the business in the black in only three years.

BT. Of course, we worked our butts off, didn't we?

First person: Best choice when the tapes will need significant editing to make a flowing
narrative. It is written as if the speaker were doing the writing. The interviewer simply ghost
writes the life story.

I loved being a mother. It seemed as if that was the role God had created just for me. Other women would complain
about their children being messy or noisy, and I honestly didn't even care. I just loved to be there when they came
home from school. About two o'clock I would start to get antsy, just couldn't wait for them to come in the door,
throw down their jackets and books and sit at the kitchen table and talk. I even loved cleaning up after them when
they were sick. I know that is hard to believe for some people, but I used to say to myself "well, I would rather have
it out here smelling bad than inside of them making them feel bad."

Third Person: Best choice if the subject is having difficulty remembering or if the interviewer
has to gain the majority of the facts from records, other family members or others who can add
insight and information.
Jennie was a fun loving little girl and definitely the apple of Tom B. Bradshaw, her loving father's eye as
well as the object of his generosity. But one time, when she was about six years old that generous and loving spirit
was put to a test. Active in the first Methodist church, their entire family enjoyed the Sunday school picnics held
every summer in the park east of town. On this particular day, the family had no sooner arrived and began eating
when a group of little girls came to the table demanding to see the elephant Mr. Bradshaw brought.

Methods of telling the story:

It is best to think of a life as a long strand of pearls with each year or significant event as one
pearl.

o An autobiography tells the jest of the whole necklace, usually in a chronological order.
Chapters, special events, decades, houses or any other natural division can separate the
sections.

o A memoir takes an important section of the pearls and makes a short necklace. You can
refer to the other beads, but you don't go into detail describing them but concentrate on the
significant period of time you are describing.

o An anthology is a collection of short unrelated stories, essays, anecdotes, incidences etc. that
are gathered together in one book The stories may build upon one another or they may be
able to stand on their own.

o A photoscribe is a more in depth scrapbook. The stories revolve around a photo or two.

Each page has a beginning, middle and end.

Including photos, graphics and memorabilia

These additions to the narrative greatly enhance the readability and value of the project.
However, they also greatly enhance the time needed to do layout, scanning, sizing etc. that will
be reflected in the cost of the finished project. One method of saving money is to group all
photos in the center of the book.

Formats for Writing Life Narratives

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Keep Writing!!! You are doing an important work.

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