Grandmaster of Police Stories
      

 

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Joseph Wambaugh Bibliography & Notes

The Grand Master of police stories has been writing police novels and nonfiction since 1971
while an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department.

 

FILM AND TELEVISION BY THE AUTHOR  


 Police Story, TV series, (creator and consultant), NBC-TV, 1973-1978

The Blue Knight, weekly TV series, (creator and consultant),  NBC-TV, 1975-1976

The Onion Field, feature film,(screenplay), Avco  Embassy, 1979
The Black Marble, feature film, (screenplay), Avco Embassy, 1980

Echoes in the Darkness, TV mini-series (teleplay) CBS-TV, 1987

Fugitive Nights, TV movie-of-the-week, (teleplay), NBC-TV, 1993

 

 

  ADAPTATIONS BY OTHERS   

The New Centurions
, feature film, Columbia Pictures, 1972
 

The Blue Knight, TV mini-series, NBC-TV, 1973

The Choirboys, feature film, Universal Pictures, 1977
The Glitter Dome, HBO movie, 1984
  


AWARDS
 

 Edgar Allan Poe, Special Award for Nonfiction, The Onion Field, 1974
Edgar Allan Poe for Best Screenplay, The Black Marble, 1981
Rodolfo Walsh Prize, Investigative Journalism, Lines & Shadows, International Assoc. of Crime Writers, 1989
Edgar Allan Poe, Best Fact Crime, Fire Lover, 2002
Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award, 2004
Strand Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award, 2012

 

BOOKS BY JOSEPH WAMBAUGH
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The New Centurions, Little, Brown, 1971

The Blue Knight, Little, Brown, 1972

The Onion Field, Delacorte Press, 1973

The Choirboys, Delacorte Press, 1975

The Black Marble, Delacorte Press, 1978

The Glitter Dome, William Morrow, 1981

The Delta Star, William Morrow, 1983 

Lines and Shadows, William Morrow, 1984

The Secrets of Harry Bright, William Morrow, 1985

Echoes in The Darkness, William Morrow, 1987

The Blooding, William Morrow, 1989

 

The Golden Orange, William Morrow, 1990

Fugitive Nights, William Morrow, 1992

Finnegan's Week, William Morrow, 1993

Floaters, Bantam, 1996

Fire Lover, William Morrow, 2002

Hollywood Station, Little, Brown, 2006

Hollywood Crows, Little, Brown, 2008

Hollywood Moon, Little, Brown, 2009

Hollywood Hills, Little, Brown, 2010

Harbor Nocturne, Grove/Atlantic, 2012