Date of Birth
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29-September-1934
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Place of Birth
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Chicago
(Illinois, United States of America, Chicago metropolitan area, Area code 872)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Stuart Kaminsky, Stuart Melvin Kaminsky, S. Kaminsky, Stuart Kaminsky, Stuart Melvin Kaminsky, S. Kaminsky
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Profession
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Writer, Author, Novelist, Teacher
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Stuart M. Kaminsky was an American mystery writer and film professor. He is known for three long-running series of mystery novels featuring the protagonists Toby Peters, a private detective in 1940s Hollywood; Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, a Moscow police inspector; and veteran Chicago police officer Abe Lieberman. A later series followed Lew Fonesca, a process server from Sarasota, Florida.
Kaminsky's Inspector Rostnikov novel A Cold Red Sunrise received the 1989 Edgar Award for Best Novel. He earned six other Edgar nominations, most recently for the 2005 non-fiction book Behind the Mystery: Top Mystery Writers Interviewed, which was also nominated for an Anthony Award, a Macavity Award, and an Agatha Award. In 2006 Kaminsky received the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America.
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