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- Birth nameHillary Baldwin Waugh
- Hillary Waugh was born on June 22, 1920 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He was a writer, known for Le mystère de la villa blanche (1962), The Unforeseen (1958) and Série noire (1984). He was married to Shannon OCork and Diana Taylor. He died on December 8, 2008 in Torrington, Connecticut, USA.
- SpousesShannon OCork(1983 - 1995) (divorced)Diana Taylor(1951 - 1980) (divorced, 3 children)
- A president of the Mystery Writers of America.
- One of the pioneers of the "police procedural" subgenre of detective fiction and creator of the characters Sheridan Wesley, Fred Fellows (chief of police), David Halliday, Frank Sessions (homicide detective), and Simon Kaye (ex-cop private investigator).
- Spent most of his life in Connecticut, except for some time in New York and Europe.
- He graduated from Yale in 1942.
- He was an aviator in the US Navy during World War II.
- I was tired of reading about these super-detectives and a police force composed of a bunch of bumbling idiots. I wanted to get away from the neat little corpses with the perfect bullet through the head, and instead write a story as it really happened. (from a 1990 interview with the New York Times)
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