George Vincent Higgins Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
George V. Higgins was born on November 13, 1939 in Brockton, Massachusetts, USA as George Vincent Higgins. He was a writer, known for Killing Them Softly (2012), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962). He was married to Lorettas Lucas Cubberly and Elizabeth Mulkerin. He died on November 6, 1999 in ...
I'm not doing dialogue because I like doing dialogue. The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.
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Writing is a hard game. No one asked you to start. No one will notice if you stop.
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If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.
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Fact
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His novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle was selected in 1985 as one of the twenty best American novels since World War II by the British Booksellers Association.
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Mystery writer H.R.F. Keating selected The Friends of Eddie Coyle in 1987 for his list of the one hundred best crime novels.
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As an attorney he defended both Eldridge Cleaver and G. Gordon Liddy.
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After his death it came out that he had written as many as 15 novels before his first, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, was published.
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Lawyer who was both prosecutor and defense attorney before becoming a writer.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Killing Them Softly
2012
based on the novel "Cogan's Trade" by
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
1973
based on the novel by
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1973
TV Series
Himself
Known for movies
Killing Them Softly (2012) as Writer
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) as Writer
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1973) as Himself
$17 Million
