{"id":2659,"date":"2009-01-01T20:17:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T00:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=2659"},"modified":"2014-12-28T16:31:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T20:31:41","slug":"donald-westlake-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=2659","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Donald Westlake"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It just came over the wires that Donald Westlake<\/strong> has died at the age of 75<\/strong> from an apparent heart attack.\u00a0 Mr. Westlake<\/strong> was one the most successful, popular and prolific authors of our time.\u00a0 Not only did he write over 100 novels<\/strong> under various names [ Richard Stark<\/span>, Tucker Coe, Samuel Holt, Edwin West<\/strong> as well as his own], but he also won three Edgar awards<\/strong> and an Academy Award nomination<\/strong> for his screenplay for “The Grifters.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

My favorite Westlake<\/strong> stories were his crime novels<\/strong> written under his pen-name of Richard Stark<\/strong>.\u00a0 I wasn’t alone in their enjoyment.\u00a0 Not only were they fan favorites, but they were also\u00a0 turned into movies<\/strong><\/a> several times with the likes of Lee Marvin, Robert Duvall<\/strong> and Mel Gibson <\/strong>playing the lead.\u00a0 If you like crime stories, then you probably love the Parker<\/strong> novels.<\/p>\n

My thoughts and prayers go out to Mr. Westlake’s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It just came over the wires that Donald Westlake has died at the age of 75 from an apparent heart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,52,51,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-crime","category-rip"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11492,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions\/11492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}