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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.
May 1, 2000 · 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.
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.