
Joseph Wambaugh
Writing
Born January 22, 1937 · East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Died February 28, 2025
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr. (born January 22, 1937) is a bestselling American writer known for his fictional and non-fictional accounts of police work in the United States. Several of his first novels were set in Los Angeles, California, and its surroundings, and featured Los Angeles police officers as protagonists. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joseph Wambaugh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- Edgar Awards · 1974
Filmography7 titles

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Police Story

Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert

The Onion Field

The Choirboys

From the Files of Joseph Wambaugh: A Jury of One

Echoes in the Darkness