Bill Pronzini
| Bill Pronzini | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 13, 1943 |
| Pen name | William Hart Davis, Jack Foxx, William Jeffrey & Alex Saxon |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | United States |
| Genre | Mystery |
| Spouse | Marcia Muller |
Bill Pronzini (born April 13, 1943) is an American writer of detective fiction. He is also an active anthologist, having compiled more than 100 collections, most of which focus on mystery, western, and science fiction short stories.
William John Pronzini was born in Petaluma, California. He has been married three times. The first marriage was to Laura Patricia Adolphson (1965, divorced 1966); the second was to Brunhilde Schier (July 28, 1972, separated December 1985, divorced a couple of years later). He married mystery writer Marcia Muller in 1992. They have collaborated on several novels: Double (1984), a Nameless Detective novel, The Lighthouse (1987), Beyond the Grave (1986), The Bughouse Affair (2013), The Spook Lights Affair (2013), The Body Snatchers Affair (2015), and The Plague of Thieves Affair (2016) as well as on numerous anthologies.
He published his first novel, The Stalker, in 1971. However, his best known works are the Nameless Detective series, which he began in 1971. As of 2013, there are 42 books in the series, including a number of short stories. While the stories involve the usual range of crimes typical to mysteries, they depict relatively little violence.
Pronzini has written more than three hundred short stories appearing in publications, including some of the last issues of both Adventure and Argosy magazines, generally considered the first American pulp magazines. Pronzini's work also appeared in Charlie Chan Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Man from U.N.C.L.E. Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, and Alfred Hitchcock's Anthology.
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