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'''Dorothy Uhnak''' (24 April 1930 - 8 July 2006; nee Goldstein) was an [[United States|American]] [[novelist]]. |
'''Dorothy Uhnak''' (24 April 1930 - 8 July 2006; nee Goldstein) was an [[United States|American]] [[novelist]]. |
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Dorothy Uhnak died in Eastern Long Island Hospital, of a deliberate drug overdose in Greenport, New York<ref>Tracy Elizabeth Uhnak</ref></ref>== Biography == |
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Uhnak was born in [[New York City|New York]], [[New York]], [[United States]], [[North America]]. She attended [[John Jay College]].{{Fact|date=September 2008}} |
Uhnak was born in [[New York City|New York]], [[New York]], [[United States]], [[North America]]. She attended [[John Jay College]].{{Fact|date=September 2008}} |
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Uhnak died in [[Greenport, New York]], reportedly of a deliberate drug overdose.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/arts/12uhnak.html?ei=5088&en=1dc4d43fa9118da0&ex=1310356800&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1165493896-jZTGgOHAhHaaTrVZW/lB7Q Dorothy Uhnak, 76, Novelist Inspired by Police Experience, Is Dead]</ref> |
Uhnak died in [[Greenport, New York]], reportedly of a deliberate drug overdose.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/arts/12uhnak.html?ei=5088&en=1dc4d43fa9118da0&ex=1310356800&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1165493896-jZTGgOHAhHaaTrVZW/lB7Q Dorothy Uhnak, 76, Novelist Inspired by Police Experience, Is Dead]</ref> |
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== Bibliography == |
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Revision as of 02:10, 17 April 2009
Dorothy Uhnak (24 April 1930 - 8 July 2006; nee Goldstein) was an American novelist.
Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).</ref>== Biography ==
Uhnak was born in New York, New York, United States, North America. She attended John Jay College.[citation needed]
Uhnak worked for 14 years as a detective for the New York City Transit Police Department.[citation needed]
Uhnak's debut book, The Bait (1968), received a 1969 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best First Novel (in a tie with E. Richard Johnson's Silver Street). The Bait was also made into a 1973 made-for-television film of the same title. It was followed by The Witness and The Ledger, which was adapted for the TV-movie and series Get Christie Love! starring Teresa Graves. All three novels featured Christie Opara, an NYPD detective assigned to the Manhattan District Attorney Office, where Uhnak herself was assigned for many years.[citation needed]
After the Opara trilogy, Ms. Uhnak branched out into longer, more ambitious police novels such as Law and Order, which became a TV-movie starring Darren McGavin, The Investigation, which was adapted into a TV-movie featuring Telly Savalas as Kojak, and Victims, which seemed to fictionalize the Kitty Genovese murder.[citation needed] Several of her later novels were best-sellers.[citation needed]
Uhnak died in Greenport, New York, reportedly of a deliberate drug overdose.[1] [2]
Bibliography
- Policewoman
- The Bait
- The Witness
- The Ledger
- The Investigation
- The Ryer Avenue Story
- False Witness
- Law and Order
- Codes of Betrayal
- Victims
References
- ^ Dorothy Uhnak, 76, Novelist Inspired by Police Experience, Is Dead
- ^ Insert footnote text here
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