Search results
Charles Ray Willeford III (January 2, 1919 – March 27, 1988) was an American writer. An author of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism. Willeford wrote a series of novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley. [1]
Oct 18, 2019 · Orphan, hobo, painter, poet, boxer, book critic, decorated tank commander, actor, truck driver, teacher, author and inveterate prankster—Charles Willeford led a life that could provide him with a zillion stories, each one touched with his distinctive view of the world.
Although his detectives do precious little detecting, Charles Willeford sparked the modern South Florida mystery craze
Charles Willeford was a remarkably fine, talented and prolific writer who wrote everything from poetry to crime fiction to literary criticism throughout the course of his impressively long and diverse career.
- (19.2K)
- March 27, 1988
- January 2, 1919
Mar 29, 1988 · Charles R. Willeford 3d, a writer of crime novels featuring Hoke Moseley, a fictional Miami homicide detective, died of a heart attack Sunday at his home in South Miami. He was...
Sep 12, 2013 · In this haunting, ribald, and percussively violent work, the author of Hoke Moseley detective novels yields a floodlit vision of the cockpits and criminal underbelly of the rural south. First published in 1962 by Charles Willeford, later made into a Roger Corman film.
Jan 28, 2013 · Charles Willeford’s I Was Looking For a Street falls right into that wheelhouse. That said, I liked I Was Looking for A Street well enough, but I didn’t love it. It’s a memoir of Willeford’s childhood years.
