Английская Википедия:Howard Engel
Шаблон:Infobox writerШаблон:Short description Howard Engel CM (April 2, 1931 – July 16, 2019) was a Canadian mystery author and CBC producer who resided in Toronto, Ontario. He was famous for his Benny Cooperman detective series, set in the Niagara Region in and around the city of Grantham, Ontario, mirroring St. Catharines, Ontario, where he was born. He was one of the founding authors of Crime Writers Of Canada in 1982.[1]
Personal life
From 1962 to 1978 he was married to Marian Engel,[2] a noted Canadian author of literary fiction, who died in 1985. They had two children,[3] twins Charlotte and William, born in 1965. Charlotte currently is an independent television producer.Шаблон:Fact Howard married Canadian novelist Janet Hamilton.[4]Шаблон:When The couple have one son,Шаблон:Fact Jacob Engel, born in 1989.
In 2001, he unknowingly suffered a stroke that left him with alexia sine agraphia, a condition that prevented him from understanding written words without a major effort without affecting his ability to write.[5] He was later able to write a new novel, Memory Book (2005), in which his character Benny Cooperman suffers a blow to the head and is similarly affected.Шаблон:Fact He later published The Man Who Forgot How To Read (2007), a memoir of the time he spent recovering from the stroke, with an afterword by Oliver Sacks (who wrote about Howard's reading problems in the book The Mind's Eye), and another novel, East of Suez, in 2008.[6]
In February 2007, Howard was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada,Шаблон:Fact receiving it at the 100th investiture. In 2013, Engel received a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal.[7] He died in Toronto on July 16, 2019, of pneumonia that arose from a stroke, at the age of 88.[7]
Bibliography
Benny Cooperman novels
- The Suicide Murders (1980), Шаблон:ISBN (Adapted as an CBC TV movieШаблон:Fact starring Saul Rubinek)
- The Ransom Game (1981), Шаблон:ISBN
- Murder On Location (1982), Шаблон:ISBN
- Murder Sees The Light (1984), Шаблон:ISBN (Adapted as a CBC TV movieШаблон:Fact starring Saul Rubinek)
- A City Called July (1986), Шаблон:ISBN
- A Victim Must Be Found (1988), Шаблон:ISBN
- Dead And Buried (1990) Шаблон:ISBN
- The Whole Megillah (1991)
- There Was An Old Woman (1993), Шаблон:ISBN
- Getting Away With Murder (1995), Шаблон:ISBN
- My Brother's Keeper (2001), Шаблон:ISBN (with Eric WrightШаблон:Fact)
- The Cooperman Variations (2001), Шаблон:ISBN
- Memory Book (2005), Шаблон:ISBN
- East Of Suez (2008), Шаблон:ISBN
- Over the River (2018), Шаблон:ISBN
Other Novels
- Murder In Space (1985), Шаблон:ISBN (FX Woolf was a pen-name for Howard Engels and Janet HamiltonШаблон:Fact).
- Murder In Montparnasse (1992), Шаблон:ISBN
- Mr. Doyle And Dr. Bell (1997), Шаблон:ISBN
- A Child's Christmas In Scarborough (1997), Шаблон:ISBN
Non-fiction
- Lord High Executioner: An Unashamed Look At Hangmen, Headsmen, And Their Kind (1996), Шаблон:ISBN
- Crimes Of Passion: An Unblinking Look At Murderous Love (2001), Шаблон:ISBN
- The Man Who Forgot How To Read (2007), Шаблон:ISBN
Anthologies
- Criminal Shorts: Mysteries By Canadian Crime Writers (1992), Шаблон:ISBN (ed. with Eric WrightШаблон:Fact)
References
External links
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