Stuart Kaminsky(1934-2009)
- Writer
Stuart M. Kaminsky is a prolific author, born in Chicago in 1934 to Leo
and Dorothy Kaminsky. He earned a BS in Journalism, and an MA in
English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a PhD
in Speech from Northwestern where he taught from 1973 until 1989. He
was a professor and head of the film division for ten years until he
moved to Florida State University in Sarasota in 1989 where he was
founding director of the Graduate Conservatory in Film and Television
Production. He left acadamia in 1994 to focus full-time on writing.
Besides numerous mystery/suspense novels, he has written several film
biographies, including those on Clint Eastwood, Gary Cooper, John
Huston, and Don Siegel. He has also written textbooks on film and
television writing. He has several screenwriting credits, including
added dialoge for "Once Upon a Time in America." He was president of
the Mystery Writers of America and has been nominated for six Edgar
Allen Poe Awards. He won an Edgar in 1989 for his novel, "A Cold Red
Sunrise."
