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- About Me:
- Born in Ireland, Eoin Hennigan is a long-time resident of Sydney, Australia. A journalist for 15 years, he has been a writer and copy-editor for a number of leading newspapers and magazines in Australia, Ireland, Scotland and the Middle East.
In 2008 Eoin featured in the Mystery Readers Journal: Irish Mysteries edition, alongside noted Irish crime writers such as Benjamin Black (aka John Banville), Colin Bateman, Declan Burke, Ken Bruen, Ruth Dudley Edwards and Tana French. His contribution, I Owe My Life to an Irish Criminal, is an account of flat-sharing with an ex-con who hadn’t given up his life of crime. It prompted a major upheaval in Eoin’s life that led to him becoming a journalist, and subsequently a crime writer.
He writes a regular column interviewing Australian authors.
- I Am A:
- Writer
- Website:
- http://www.eoinhennigan.com
- Books And Authors I Like:
- Dashiell Hammett / Red Harvest
Jim Thompson / Pop 1280
- Movies And TV Shows I Like:
- Criminal Intent, NCIS, Law and Order, Spooks, but I think the best cop show in recent memory was The Shield.
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I actually met one of the Hollywood Ten, Ring Lardner Jr., just before his death. I was a young, starving writer selling cars to the Hollywood set at the time, and he was a neighbor of the owner of the dealership. I drove out to Ring Jr's Encino home to deliver his new car, and asked him if he was related to Ring Lardner, Sr. -- a friend of Hemingway & Fitzgerald. He beamed at the recognition. Ring Jr. told that he remembered the wild parties and drunken card games that his father, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway would have in Ring Sr.s household. We debated literary criticism of The Great Gatsby, shook hands and parted ways. It was only later that I found out that Ring Jr. was one of the Hollywood Ten and that he wrote the scripts for Laura and MASH. That's my little slice of blacklist Hollywood history...
well hi and thanks so much for the add!
I wanted to invite you to my Blogoversary Party tomorrow - 2 years of blogging and some giveaways but it would just be cool if you could stop by and say "hey".
Id like to chat with you more when I have time about your work.
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Cheers,
Steve
Thanks for the adding me to your space. Have a great day!
Currently I'm chairing a Private Eye Writers Shamus Award committee for the Best Short Story published in 2008. The postmark deadline is June 19, if you have any short stories (or novels) featuring a private eye--meaning a paid individual who investigates, not including law enforcement officials--then I invite you to submit. You don't have to be a PWA member. PWA has a website outlining all the rules. Believe me, it's a great group, full of hardboiled writers.
Wishing you great writing!
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