Nathan Ward
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Nathan Ward

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Nathan Ward lives in Brooklyn, New York, not that far from the waterfront that figures in his first book, Dark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront. Before writing books, he worked on the staffs of American Heritage and Library Journal, and has written for the Village Voice, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. With the late W.C. Heinz, he edited a boxing anthology, The Book of Boxing, and in 2014 published an ebook, The Amateur, about the KGB agent Rudolf Abel's career as a painter and spy in Cold War New York. His 2015 book, The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett, was nominated for a Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award as well as Bouchercon's Anthony Award. Of The Lost Detective, Alan Furst has written: "Funny thing about books, some of them are a delight and a pleasure. Thus Nathan Ward's The Lost Detective--yes it's very well written, yes the history is carefully done, but it has that 'glow.' So, this you will like." And the Hammett scholar Otto Penzler, Editor of The Best American Noir of the Century, adds: " As a devoted Hammett aficionado, I've read most books about him and published his daughter's memoir, but learned so much in this captivating examination of the great author's life that I feel compelled to reread his complete works with far deeper understanding than ever before." Ward's historical crime novel, Ashes of My Youth: a Tale of New York & The Wall Street Bombing, was published by Spy-Arts in May 2021, and his new book, SON OF THE OLD WEST The Odyssey of Charlie Siringo, will be published by Atlantic Monthly Press in September 2023. See: nathanwardwriter.com
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