{"id":835,"date":"2016-04-27T12:10:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T19:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=835"},"modified":"2017-07-06T09:20:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T16:20:59","slug":"breen-jon-linn-1943","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=835","title":{"rendered":"BREEN, JON LINN, 1943-"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Writer; librarian; sportscaster.\u00a0 Born– November 8, 1943, Montgomery. Parents– Frank William and Margaret Wolfe Breen. Married– Rita A. Gunson, 1970. Education– Pepperdine University, B.A., 1965; University of Southern California, M.S. in Library Science, 1966. Served in the U.S. Army. 1967-1969; sports broadcaster, Radio KWAV, Los Angeles, \u00a01963-1965. Librarian, California State University, Long Beach 1966-1967; California State University, Dominguez Hills, 1969-1975;\u00a0 Rio Hondo College, Whittier, Calif., 1975-2000.\u00a0Published short stories in periodicals and anthologies; books of fiction as well as critical and bibliographical works.\u00a0 Member Mystery Writers of America, Science Fiction Writers of America, Sierra Club. awards:\u00a0 Edgar Allen Poe Awards from Mystery Writers of America, 1982 and 1985; Anthony Award for Best Critical Work, 1991 and 1994; Macavity Award from Mystery Writers International, 1994.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contemporary Authors online; Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers. 2nd. ed. 1985.<\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Drowning Icecube and Other Stories.\u00a0 Unity, ME: Five Star, 1999.<\/p>\n

The Eye of God: A Mystery.\u00a0 Palo Alto:\u00a0 John Daniel and Company, 2006.<\/p>\n

The Gathering Place. Walker, 1984. (British ed. published; London; Macmillan, 1984)<\/p>\n

Hair of the Sleuthhound; Parodies of Modern Fiction. Metuchen, N.J.; Scarecrow, 1982.<\/p>\n

J. B. Must Die: An Ed Gorgon Story.\u00a0 Norfolk:\u00a0 Crippen and Landru, 2003.<\/p>\n

Kill the Umpire: The Calls of Ed Gorgan.\u00a0 Norfolk:\u00a0 Crippen and Landru, 2003.<\/p>\n

Listen for the Click.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Walker, 1983.\u00a0 (British ed. published as The Vicar’s Roses.\u00a0 London: Macmillan, 1984.)<\/p>\n

Loose Lips. New York; Simon & Schuster, 1990.<\/p>\n

Novel Verdicts: A\u00a0 Guide to Courtroom Fiction. Metuchen, N.J.; Scarecrow Press, 1984.<\/p>\n

Probable Claus.\u00a0 Waterville ME, 2009.<\/p>\n

Touch of the Past. New York; Walker, 1988.<\/p>\n

Triple Crown. New York; Walker, 1985.<\/p>\n

What About Murder; a Guide to the Books About Mystery and Detective Fiction. Metuchen, N.J.; Scarecrow Press, 1981.<\/p>\n

Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Girl in the Pictorial Wrapper.\u00a0 California State College Library, 1972; rev. ed., 1973.<\/p>\n

A Little Fleshed up around the Crook of the Elbow.\u00a0 California State College Library, 1970.<\/p>\n

Joint_Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Fine Art of Murder:\u00a0 The Mystery Reader’s Indispensable Companion.\u00a0 Carroll and Graf, 1993.<\/p>\n

American Murders; 11 Rediscovered Short Novels from American Magazines, 1934-1954. New York; Garland, 1986.<\/p>\n

Murder California Style; a Collection of Short Stories. New York; St. Martin’s, 1987.<\/p>\n

Synod of Sleuths: Essays on Judeo-Christian Detective Fiction.\u00a0 Metuchen Press, 1990.<\/p>\n

Contributor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Book Reviewing.\u00a0 Writer, Inc., 1978.<\/p>\n

Murder in Los Angeles. New York; Morrow, 1987.<\/p>\n

Murder Off the Rack; Critical Study of Ten Paperback Masters. Metuchen, N.J.; Scarecrow Press, 1989.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biography: Writer; librarian; sportscaster.\u00a0 Born– November 8, 1943, Montgomery. Parents– Frank William and Margaret Wolfe Breen. Married– Rita A. Gunson, 1970. Education– Pepperdine University, B.A., 1965; University of Southern California, M.S. in Library Science, 1966. Served in the U.S. Army. 1967-1969; sports broadcaster, Radio KWAV, Los Angeles, \u00a01963-1965. Librarian, California State University, Long Beach 1966-1967; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5415,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/5415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}